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DavidDvorkin

(19,485 posts)
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:42 PM Mar 2017

Regretful Trump Voters Are (Mostly) a Myth

Well, this is depressing.

The months since the election have produced no small number of “regretful Trump voter” stories. And these narratives have grown even more prominent as news outlets have sought to dramatize the gap between the health-care plan Trump described on the stump, and the one he is trying to push through Congress.

But while such “#Trumpgrets” do exist, they are aberrations: Only 3 percent of Trump voters regret their decision — and fewer than 1 percent wish they had voted for Hillary Clinton last fall — according to a new poll from Penn State’s McCourtney Institute of Democracy and YouGov.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/regretful-trump-voters-are-mostly-a-myth.html?mid=fb-share-di
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NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
3. If you look at it, though
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:46 PM
Mar 2017

If 1% of Trump voters had voted for Hillary on November 8, she wins PA, MI, WI, FL and NC. If another 2 percent voted 3rd party or stayed home, it's a huge victory and Democrats may have taken the Senate

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. I should read the article to see if they addressed this, but...
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:47 PM
Mar 2017

It's human nature to double down on bad choices. I have little doubt that eventually a lot of the deluded will eventually see a way to bail from their choice with a bit of dignity.

Quixote1818

(28,968 posts)
14. That is the point I made below. The numbers don't add up with his disapproval numbers.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:35 PM
Mar 2017

Meaning a lot of people are so embarrassed they won't admit they voted for him now.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
8. 1% change would have easily given hillary the election.....
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:55 PM
Mar 2017

71,000 vote difference in 3 states.....but this is only 2 months into the presidency and the fact that trump is a boldface liar still hasn't sunk in....but its slowly happening..


redo poll in 2 months....and in 6 months and in a year

superpatriotman

(6,252 posts)
9. We ether have to learn to live with them
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 03:56 PM
Mar 2017

or embark on history's largest cultist group deprogramming. Maybe we can use rallies like twitler does already?

LOL Lib

(1,462 posts)
10. I can personally confirm that the article is correct.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:02 PM
Mar 2017

Unfortunately I am in contact with Trumpkins every day. They all seem blissfully ignorant of any trump failure and believe Democrats are just still being sore losers. I hear every excuse in the book. I have grown weary of trying to educate them on the falsehoods they have been brainwashed to believe. The worst of them really believe that president Obama is trying to undermine the tangerine asshole.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
11. That figures
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:11 PM
Mar 2017

As they lay dying in a ditch thanks to Dumpcare, unemployed,starving,broke and homeless....

The last words out of their hate enraged minds will be...whatever they last heard from fox news/hate radio/reich wing preachers.

F those stupid bastards!

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
12. Interesting.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:16 PM
Mar 2017

The conclusion is that Trump's electoral coalition is holding together. His electoral coalition represents 27% of eligible voters, of which he would lose another 3%. While it is sad and unfortunate that there is a little less than a quarter of eligible voters who still support him, it should not be depressing. It means that 75% of eligible voters would not vote for him.

What we need to do is figure out how to get at those 75% of which we already have about 30% solid. We need to motivate about 60% of the people who did not vote in 2016 to come out and vote Democratic in 2018 and 2020 and we can start to undo the damage being done by Trump and the GOP.

Quixote1818

(28,968 posts)
13. With an approval under 40% all this means is people won't admit they voted for him
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:33 PM
Mar 2017

This shows around 10% who voted for him are so embarrassed they want nothing to do with him. The remaining 37% are fucking nuts and love all the idiotic chaos he is causing. Not surprising.

MurrayDelph

(5,301 posts)
15. While there is no proof that Mark Twain said it
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 04:41 PM
Mar 2017

the line attributed to him seems very apt:


"It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."

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