• tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    National polling has Kamala up by +6 at best. Seems like 44%+ of Americans those polled seem comfortable and supportive of Trump. The fact it is that close at a national level, with all Haitians eating cats rhetoric, still seems insane to an outsider.

    Edit: Updated to appease those saying 44%+ of those polled who say they support Trump is not an accurate reflection of Americans at-large. For reference, Trump won 46.1% of the popular vote in 2016 and 46.8% of the popular vote in 2020.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s not 44 percent of Americans. It’s 44 percent of the people poled. I can guarantee that number is skewed because a ton of left leaning people wouldn’t bother wasting their time not getting paid to answer some pole. I know my friends and I are in that boat.

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        3 months ago

        It’s 44% of all those people polled who are registered voters.

        It seems insane to us “insiders” too.

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        3 months ago

        The point is, anything more than negligible is fucking nuts!

        Even if it’s 44% of just idiot luddite conservatives, that’s still 44% of idiot luddite conservatives too many!

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          3 months ago

          Wait until you find out that 30-40% of Americans believe god magicked the universe into being as is less than 10k years ago and fossils are from noahs flood in which he saved 2 of every animal in a boat the size of texas.

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        3 months ago

        Don’t pollsters account for this? There’s a reason why polling still exists and is talked about, the final results do reflect reality to some degree.

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      3 months ago

      Most polls are performed by calling landlines. The majority of people with landlines are elderly or own businesses.

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      3 months ago

      Hilary was polling at roughly the same numbers as close as two weeks before that election he won back in 2016, if I remember correctly. It was looking like a clean sweep for her, and it was anything but. So don’t get comfortable yet.