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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 12:33 PM Aug 2016

More Than a Third of Voters Would Consider Third-Party Candidate

... Asked how they would vote in a four-way race including Johnson and Stein, respondents to the ABC News/Washington Post poll released Aug. 7 gave Hillary Clinton an eight-point lead over Trump, 45 percent to 37 percent, with Johnson at 8 percent, and Stein at 4 percent.

Now, together with ABC News’ partners at SSRS survey research firm, we asked in an online poll of randomly chosen respondents if they are considering voting for a third-party candidate: 35 percent said yes.

Asked how worried they are, if at all, that votes for a third-party candidate could cause their least preferred candidate to win the presidency, 59 percent said they are worried: 35 percent somewhat worried, 15 percent very worried, and 9 percent extremely worried ...

he ABC News/SSRS Poll was conducted using the SSRS Probability Panel. Interviews were conducted online overnight from August 18 – August 19, 2016 among a nationally representative sample of 231 respondents age 18 and older. The margin of error for total respondents is +/-8.1% at the 95% confidence level. The SSRS Probability Panel is a probability-based, online panel of adults recruited from random digit dialed landline


http://www.mycentraloregon.com/2016/08/21/more-than-a-third-of-voters-would-consider-third-party-candidate/
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More Than a Third of Voters Would Consider Third-Party Candidate (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP
Stupid is as Stupid does.. misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #1
All that confirms is that a third of voters haven't got a clue stopbush Aug 2016 #2

stopbush

(24,378 posts)
2. All that confirms is that a third of voters haven't got a clue
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 12:52 PM
Aug 2016

as to what the major party candidates - or even the third-party candidates - stand for.

Ignorance is bliss, and supporting third-party candidates is bliss to low-information voters.

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