swing voter
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[edit]Noun
[edit]swing voter (plural swing voters)
- A person who does not always vote for the same political party, but usually decides on the basis of specific policies.
- Synonym: floating voter
- 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times[1]:
- As long as a conservative politician doesn’t break the law, or threaten the constitutional order, they can get away with more strident policies and rhetoric than a swing voter might have tolerated a decade ago.