By most any measure, the Trump Administration is defining political news in 2017, from the morning tweets to evening breaking news stories. But behind the hurly burly of the daily news cycle, the data suggest a quieter but potentially much bigger story is working its way through American politics: The two parties are changing.
An analysis of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll since 2010 shows changes in who is calling themselves a Democrat (increasingly college-educated and younger voters) and who is calling themselves a Republican (older, working-class white voters). Donald Trump’s election seems only to be continuing and growing the trend. CONT.
Dante Chinni, NBC News