drift away

If and when the layoffs are deemed illegal, those workers might have long drifted away, to other employers or other states.

Far too many voters drifted away or fell asleep by the second slide and concluded — reluctantly, in many cases — that given the options, smashing things sounded like a lot more fun.

But we are drifting away from the point.

In his view, the rural drift away from Democrats over the past 40 years stems from a failure to deliver on economic promises over that period.

They are rich in the kind of college-educated, traditionally Republican voters who polls show have been moving toward Democrats even as some blue-collar voters have drifted away from the party.