I think the conservatives have created such a convincing narrative of how they are "under threat", that they don't adopt new technology, so they don't show up in polling.

My dad is an example. He gets about 50 emails a day from 3-5 completely nutball right-winger friends. Stuff like the concentration camps being built out in West Texas, where the unmarked trains are going to take people into re-education centers. Obama's secret religious ceremonies in the White House, where animals are butchered and the Democratic leaders drink the fresh blood...

Seriously. He gets this shit all day, every day.

At some point, your baseline sense of reason gets dulled, and you don't actually believe this shit... but you also don't disbelieve it.

I think the conservatives live in these endlessly forwarded, completely psychotic email chains. And it dulls their senses of reason.

They never see our information bubble, because they aren't on social media. And the few places they do participate with on social media - Twitter, and the Fox News comments section - are full of the truly insane right wing conspiracy nuts.

I think our comfortable, liberal, critical-thinking capable, science-understanding, and technology-embracing populace lives in a bubble without realizing it. We THINK we see the broader narrative, in our brief dips into Fox News and accidental clicks to Breitbart, but we are only seeing the surface of a deep and unbalanced river.