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Per the poll noted below, Trumpkins and Independents get their news from roughly the same places, and in the same proportions. I mean, really. I expect Dems and GOP-ers to get info from different places and form diametrically different conclusions based on it. However, when folks lacking party allegiance consume basically the same content as GOP-ers (Indies reported consuming info in different patterns and from different sources from Dems) and arrive at materially different conclusions, ones that more nearly align with Dems, one has to ask WTF is going on in the minds of those GOP-ers. Is there even something going on in there?
What makes me say the above? Well, I read the below linked-to poll and I started thinking about what might drive, not the actual responses folks gave, but the difference in some of the answers, particularly the differences between Republicans and Independents. Seeing those differences, I realized there shouldn't be an exogenous information-oriented reason for the difference because those catalysts are essentially the same. That means the differences must preponderantly be driven by endogenous disparities among the respondents and how they process (or don't) information. That led me to posit that Trumpkins are some stupid, intransigent, gullible-ass "mofos."
Read the poll for yourself:
Some additional inferences I've drawn from the above noted poll:
What makes me say the above? Well, I read the below linked-to poll and I started thinking about what might drive, not the actual responses folks gave, but the difference in some of the answers, particularly the differences between Republicans and Independents. Seeing those differences, I realized there shouldn't be an exogenous information-oriented reason for the difference because those catalysts are essentially the same. That means the differences must preponderantly be driven by endogenous disparities among the respondents and how they process (or don't) information. That led me to posit that Trumpkins are some stupid, intransigent, gullible-ass "mofos."
Read the poll for yourself:
Some additional inferences I've drawn from the above noted poll:
- Republicans who are well-informed about the shutdown are comparatively rare. More than half of Republicans know little or nothing about the shutdown. What do you want to wager that more than half of GOP-ers have an opinion on the matter, even as they aren't well-informed about it?
- Poll: How much have you seen, heard or read about the recent shutdown of portions of the federal government?
- A lot:
- Dems --> 60%
- GOP-ers --> 47%
- Indies --> 53%
- Xelor: Concomitant with their relative ignorance about the shutdown and apparent disregard for Trump's dissembling, Republicans found Trump's Oval Office address convincing about the verisimility of a southern border crisis, even though Trump didn't in his address reveal anything noteworthy and new.
- Poll: President Trump's speech convinced me there is a crisis on the Southern border.
- Dems --> 21% agree
- GOP-ers --> 66% agree
- Indies --> 32% agree
- Poll: President Trump's speech convinced me there is a crisis on the Southern border.
- A lot:
- Poll: How much have you seen, heard or read about the recent shutdown of portions of the federal government?
- Trump's claim that the furloughed and unpaid-yet-essential workers are mostly Democrats appears not to hold water.
- Poll: Are you, or someone in your immediate family a federal employee or contractor and was furloughed without pay?
- Dems --> 5%
- GOP-ers --> 5%
- Poll: Are you, or someone in your immediate family a federal employee or contractor and was furloughed without pay?
- Republicans are relatively more insouciant than Dems about the consequences of the shutdown.
- Poll: The government shutdown is going to hurt our country.
- Dems --> 88% agree
- GOP-ers --> 53% agree
- Indies --> 71% agree
- Poll: The government shutdown is going to hurt our country.