# Are Dems losing people to the "Walk Away" movement? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [August 27, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354 "2018-08-27T13:44:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/1 "2018-08-27T13:44:39Z")
Just learned this was a thing today on FB. But none of my LW rags have reported anything on it. 😕 ---
### Author: ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/2 "2018-08-27T14:03:14Z")
It’s a fake right-wing astroturf thing. ---
### Author: ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/3 "2018-08-27T14:09:00Z")
[Existing thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857965). ---
### Author: ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/4 "2018-08-27T14:19:27Z")
I’m sure some liberal somewhere has changed sides. It doesn’t appear to be widespread as Democratic identification [is fairly stable](https://medium.com/@PollsAndVotes/trends-in-party-id-2004-2018-143a7fddde58) and GOP identification has dropped. There’s also probably more instances of well-known (if only in political circles) Republicans saying to vote Democratic or leaving the GOP than Democrats doing the same. Which isn’t to say either is happening in significant numbers. ---
### Author: ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/5 "2018-08-27T14:22:45Z")
The creator is a right winger and it is an astroturf movement. ---
### Author: ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/6 "2018-08-27T14:40:50Z")
It’s also standard projection. They’ve got people running, not walking away, so they come up with this. ---
### Author: ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/7 "2018-08-27T14:43:55Z")
I heard they lost some girl named Renee to the movement. They didn’t even bother to follow her back home. ---
### Author: ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/8 "2018-08-27T15:56:30Z")
♫ \*Seems to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you don’t want to talk about it seems to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee you just turn your pretty head and walk away-ay\* ♫ ---
### Author: ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/9 "2018-08-27T17:54:23Z")
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=21171868](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=21171868) _A CNN opinion article published by CNN last week says the Walk Away movement is being promoted by “Kremlin-linked Russian bots, and it is now the seventh most popular Russia-influenced hashtag as of this writing.” The article attempts to cast the movement as anything but a grassroots one, but it does not include any photos or testimonials from Americans._ ---
### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos) #### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/10 "2018-08-27T21:36:45Z")
What movement? I mean, it’s not even a fake movement: There’s no substance there, not even imaginary substance. Your OP paraphrases as “Are people who are leaving the Democratic Party leaving the Democratic Party?”. ---
### Author: ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/11 "2018-08-28T03:05:30Z")
Russian propaganda! ---
### Author: ![Apanthro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@Apanthro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apanthro) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/12 "2018-08-28T03:20:38Z")
It’s hilarious how quickly their subreddit’s subscriber count went up, then flattened out. [https://i.imgur.com/5jDReTI.png](https://i.imgur.com/5jDReTI.png) [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/97lwij/remember_the_super_successful_walkaway_campaign/) Seems like this grassroots homespun all-American political movement may have run out of bots :rolleyes: ---
### Author: ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/13 "2018-08-28T04:17:12Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Just learned this was a thing today on FB. But none of my LW rags have reported anything on it. > > 😕 No. ---
### Author: ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/14 "2018-08-28T04:25:40Z")
The Dems are losing more to alien abduction and Canada than this non-movement. ---
### Author: ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock) #### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/15 "2018-08-28T15:44:09Z")
Move to close this thread. ---
### Author: ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus) #### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/16 "2018-08-30T16:09:06Z")
You guys is talkin’ like truth is still truth, or facts are facts. Wake up and smell the hemlock. ---
### Author: ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth) #### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/17 "2018-08-30T16:16:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The Dems are losing more to alien abduction and Canada than this non-movement. More like alien abduction _in_ Canada. There’s an old saying: “Whistling past the graveyard.” Well, this is striking up a whole damned brass band. Lot of noise and show to distract the faithful from a distressing (to them) reality. ---
### Author: ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe) #### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/18 "2018-10-05T13:51:56Z")
If anyone wants to “walk away” later this month Dave Rubin, Diamond & Silk, Herman Cain, Dinesh D’Souza, Bill Mitchell, Stacey Dash, and 3 people from QAnon will be there to greet you. [https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1048038444931473409](https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1048038444931473409) Not sure they lined up enough black speakers for this, so hopefully at least 2 of the QAnon folks will be black. ---
### Author: ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia) #### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/19 "2018-10-05T14:15:43Z")
I’m sure that a lot of people who considered themselves members in good standing of the Democrat Party and adherents to the religion of liberalism have seen the error of their ways. Other Democrats, no so much. 😃 ---
### Author: ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams) #### Post date: [October 7, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354/20 "2018-10-07T03:53:21Z")
I’d say “Stay away, the last two years of hysterical braying has done no more to get my vote than 2016 did” has more legs than ‘walk away’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-dems-losing-people-to-the-walk-away-movement/820354.md?page=2)