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Half of Republicans Would Back Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 11 2017, @04:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the glass-half-full-or-half-empty dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

According to a poll conducted by two academic authors and published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.

If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.

Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/346000-poll-about-half-of-republicans-would-back-postponing-2020-election-if-trump

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:07AM (#552153)

    I think it would be interesting to poll Americans on let's say how much Obama managed to get China to agree to reduce their CO2 emissions by, by 2030, in his "landmark environmental treaty" that was signed with them.

      - More than 75%
      - More than 50%
      - More than 30%
      - More than 10%
      - 0%

    You'd probably get extremely close to 0% of Americans getting the right answer there, which is 0%. Even better, how about we poll Americans on the TPP?

    The fact that the majority of republicans understand that Trump lost the majority vote is surprising. The vast majority of people don't really have much of a clue about anything and just rely on their media feeds to inform them. Unsurprisingly most media feeds that target a self-identifying republican demographic weren't running many stories on the popular vote. This sort of echo chamber mentality is one of the most severe issues facing our country today on both sides of the aisle. As news becomes increasingly sensationalistic and targeted towards specific demographics, this divide is rapidly increasing to the point that both 'sides' are becoming increasingly ignorant of the other, and accessing information that is only incredibly biased either for 'their side' or against 'the other side.'

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