2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCould anyone with knowledge of polling explain where "41% think election will be rigged" comes from?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/17/poll-41-percent-think-election-could-be-stolen-from-trump.htmlI have tried looking through this Politico poll, but I don't see anywhere that shows the "41%" figure getting so much headline exposure. Is it buried somewhere? What page of the data is it found on? The only "41%" I see is in data exclusively about Democrats on a different subject.
I feel like the figure is manufactured, either as an outright lie or the combination of two answers that really shouldn't be combined. If I'm wrong, please let me know, but this just stinks like typical Politico shit-stirring, IMO.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)though! LOL!
It's POLITICO--owned by the Far Right Wing Albrittons....what, you expect 'fair' from those clowns?
Raven
(13,891 posts)who think everything is rigged, especially government. It is their way of explaining why they aren't successful enough, happy enough, important enough. They believe that their problems would be solved if there were no blacks, Jews, Latinos, etc. They do not take personal responsibility for their own decisions. These folks have been around a long time and Trump tapped into their gnawing dissatisfaction. They may be 41% or 35 % but they are there and they will be there after Trump.
Tom Rivers
(459 posts)and he's the one out there saying it's all rigged and we know they take anything this clown says as the gospel, so it doesn't really surprise me.
40% of the people will always think it's rigged if a republican doesn't win and they don't get their way.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)It seems to be a headline with no basis in the polling data used to justify it.
They might as well just write, "Losing side sees loss coming, begins crying early."
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)GOP, voter suppression by the GOP and the list goes on. I have worked in a precinct and will be working in the GE, Trump is going to lose because of the campaign he has run, he is unfit and not qualified and he has insulted too many people. There are several checks performed when voting, stuffing the ballot box, no Trump, check with your office in NC where there was completed ballots and find how they was able to do this.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Because there is a concerted effort to deflect from the issue that does the most harm and move the narrative to something that suppresses voting.