I would expect nothing less of a large and diverse population with competing interests. But it’s important not to lose sight that while 9% of Hispanics support Trump, 91% do not.
I thought it was a well-known and well-established fact that Republicans were generally more knowledgeable and better-informed than Democrats. Here’s my cite.
Yes, I’m using self-identified Republicans as a stand-in for “Trump supporters” and self-identified Democrats as a stand-in for “Clinton supporters” because
both candidates are supported by more than 90% of their respective party members
there’s a wealth of statistical information on partisan differences that far surpasses research specifically on “Trump supporters” and “Clinton supporters”
Trump supporters are not equivalent to Republicans in previous elections. You can use historical election data rather than data from right now if you like, but that doesn’t prove your case about current Trump supporters, who are to a significant degree ignorant and gullible. Look at the things that they believe. ACORN? She-Devil? Non existent Iran money video that they not only claim to believe Trump saw, but that they actually claim that they themselves saw! You can’t dismiss that with an unrelated study that does not address the current phenomenon of Trump supporters.
Except Trump is not the traditional Republican candidate. And many educated Republicans are running away from Trump as fast as their feet can carry them. Some even as far as endorsing Clinton.
So I don’t think you should rely on that 90% support in this election.
I guess I haven’t checked the polls lately. One I saw earlier had both Clinton and Trump getting mid-90’s levels of support from their respective partisans. That was before Trump took a dive in the polls though, so maybe it’s changed now.
You used the word “many”, but I think the behavior you’re describing is really only exhibited by a tiny fraction of Republicans.
I didn’t miss it. I went and read the article, found the actual PPP poll results (they’re here BTW), and read through the list of questions they asked and decided it was a shitty poll that was designed as a partisan “Gotcha” game rather than a serious quest for knowledge. Other thread participants are invited to read the questions in the poll and draw their own conclusions. I’m not particularly interested in arguing against a cite that I think is so weak it collapses under even mild scrutiny by any sincere observer.
BTW, guess who else saw the non-existent Iran money video: 25% of HRC supporters.
It’s all highly speculative, of course. How many rank and file Republicans are silently abandoning Trump for every high profile Republican who announces publicly that they cannot and will not vote for Trump?
“The candidates for President are Democrat, Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. If the election was today, who would you vote for?”
To the OP. With all due respect yeah, your intolerant, you’re a bigot, and you have little empathy or respect for those less fortunate who have lost out in recent years.
But that is to be expected. The most intolerant people I know are overbearing liberals and progressives both in real life and here online.
I am not a Trump supporter as much as I dislike Hillary a whole lot more.
These seem like good questions to gauge the effects of these smear campaigns. Anyway, those come after the question I quoted (Q5). Those responding to the poll would have answered Q5 before they even saw these questions.