Primary Colors: How Both Parties Clash With the General Electorate

From immigration to income inequality, it’s clear why the Republican and Democratic primary elections are playing out in such starkly different ways: Both parties are talking to electorates that look very little like each other – or like the general election voters who won’t go to the polls until next November.

A new super-sample of the last three NBC News/ Wall Street Journal polls – composed of a combined 999 GOP primary voters and 1,030 Democratic primary voters – shows how dramatically different the two pools look demographically and ideologically. CONT.

Carrie Dann, NBC News

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