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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's lower than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Now if we can just make sure those 64% actually go vote that would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The poll of 1,165 adults was conducted Aug. 10-14 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population.

That shouldn't be at the end of the article after I had to click on a separate article. Poor journalistic practices.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Poor journalistic practices

welcome to modern journalism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your point is that it's a small sample, you're in for a surprise - that's about all you need to estimate something within about 3% for the US population. If they're doing stratification and such it might be even more efficient than that.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As dismayingly low as that appears, I think more or less as good as it’s gonna get for a while. Between Fox, Trump’s enablers/sycophants, and the man himself, they’ve been able to pretty much enrapture the lowest third of the bell curve, and it’s gonna take a while for that to pass - if it ever does.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how many of that 64% will actually vote?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If only we had actual "one person, one vote" elections in the U.S. Instead we have a skewed system where rural and southern areas have more weight than coastal urban areas due to how the electoral college is distributed. It has been common for the popular vote to be opposite to the determined vote for president.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How are the numbers for Biden?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"36% of Americans think a violent, criminal, rapist dictator is acceptable."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve noticed seemingly regardless of any instances, in multiple time periods and countries there’s always 30% of the public that supports the absolute worst people/policies.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'd never vote for Trump, but i'm not really thrilled to vote for Biden either. I think both options suck.

Since there is no other option we'll end up with Biden again probably, just depends how much power hate and fear has nowadays.

I'm in Massachusetts so voting blue doesn't mean anything in the presidential race. With the divide between conservative and liberal getting worse and worse I wonder how the battleground states will swing this time around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This 3 foot pile of dog shit in my living room is really disgusting and I don't like it one bit. On the other hand it was kinda disorganized in here before the dog shit and that was kinda sucky too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They broke it out as 53% wouldn't support him if he's the GOP nominee, and another 11% wouldn't support him in November 2024.

...what's the difference between those two things?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, that confused me as well. I had to read that 3 times to figure out the distinction.

53% of Americans say they would definitely not support him if he’s the GOP nominee, and another 11% say they probably would not back him in November 2024.

"the GOP nominee" and "in November 2024" both refer to the same thing, but the phrasing change distracts from the definitely/probably thing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Meaningless poll because the popular vote doesn't determine who becomes president. What matters is what percentage of the votes he gets in swing states.

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