Okay, I’ve heard this statistic on *The Young Turks * a couple of times. Cenk says that only three percent of those who voted for Trump believe that Joe Biden won the election.
Can this possibly be accurate? Sure, there’s plenty of YouTube fodder showing Trump fans being delusional, but that’s just YouTubers trying to be interesting, right? If a person puts on silly outfits and stands around yelling into a camera about how the election was stolen, then that person is fairly invested in their tinhattery. But that can’t be ninety-seven percent of 70 plus million voters, right?
Please tell me half the country is not this far gone.
People lie in polls like this to express displeasure about the election result. If Trump had won I can easily imagine saying “yes” to all kinds of crazy questions, just to piss him off.
Why, yes, I do think he drugged members of the judiciary to suppress the vote, thanks for asking.
You can’t get 97% of people to agree on anything. There might be an internet click poll on some Qannon website that could have yielded those results, but no legitimate poll is going to give you that level of agreement.
People will often reply “yes” to something just because of the novelty of it. If you ran a poll asking, “Do you want Barack Obama to balance himself on a beach ball on one foot while rubbing his belly with his left hand and drinking a pina colada with the right?”, you could probably get at least 30 percent yes. That doesn’t mean that one-third of Americans wake up in the morning wishing Obama would do that, though.
People will come up with whatever numbers they need to make their point.
“Results” like that–the ones that declare near unanimity for anything other than “Do you believe water is wet?” are suspect.
Usually they use a convenient totaling up of several different responses. First of all the question asked was something like: “How likely is it that there was any fraud against Trump in the 2020 Presidential election returns?” (instead of “Do you think Biden won?”)