• rainwall@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    Nah, poll was fine. Its all in their stupid presentation. Check out the hilarious tiny text in the the bottom right corner:

    “66%/31% split among non maga”

    The above could as easily been said “Vast majority of people polled disapprove of Trump, at record levels” but instead they teased out the only positive bit of data, blew it up to take up 99% of the screen, then hid the real polling results in a way that they can claim they referenced them accurately.

    A modern example of “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

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      13 days ago

      I don’t know if I agree. Is the point of this to show good news for him or was it to show a political reality that no matter what happens his base will never ever abandon him?

      Because we certainly all seen the hopium articles being posted for the last year and a half. About how his base was finally waking up. It’s always been a lie, this just proves it.

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        I think the statistic shown coveys literally zero info.To be MAGA is to support trump. Its the definiton of the movement. 20-30% of the people polled will always 100% support him. Its why he made his famous quip in 2016 about being able to kill a man on 5th avenue in broad daylight and still get away with it. For those people, being a rich, racist asshole rapist who never faces consequences is their dream, and they love him for living it.

        The most people can hope for from his diehard crowd is that they dont feel up to voting in the midterms becsuse hes not on the ballot.

        The actual hope has largely been about his 2024 coalition falling apart, the young men, the independents, the latinos, the people who vote for low gas prices and cheap groceries. His support in those groups have been destroyed from a dozen directions, and a forever war in Iran that permanently raises gas priced $1-2/gal and kills american troops aint gonna bring them back.