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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFirst look: Mueller gains credibility among swing voters
https://www.axios.com/first-look-mueller-gains-credibility-among-swing-voters-1526032725-9eda4a00-373c-4b12-83d0-e000c4f18caa.html?utm_source=sidebar
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)WTF is wrong with you, whoever you are?
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)mucifer
(23,533 posts)Kind of a blind loyalty thing from zealot patriotism.
That's my theory anyway.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)progressoid
(49,983 posts)Exit polls showed 8% of Dems voted for him.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Now if Mueller started tweeting about "fake president" I might worry. But he isn't.
malaise
(268,949 posts)Rec
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)just laughable, is all I can say!
spanone
(135,827 posts)genxlib
(5,524 posts)Regardless of how you feel about Trump, what had Mueller ever done to lose any trust.
He has done nothing other than serve our Country in multiple ways. He was asked to come out of retirement and has done not a single thing to earn any mistrust. Even if you trusted Trump, there would be no reason to trust him more than Mueller.
It just goes to show how effective a smear campaign can be when you can get a coordinated multi-pronged effort.
I would add that the responses only add up to about 75%. Which probably means that 25% didn't know or have any opinion. I reserve a special kind of disdain for those people. How could you not have an opinion at this point?
MikeIsInProcess
(23 posts)It makes perfect sense.
In the authoritarian mind, disloyalty is falsehood (and Mueller is seen as being disloyal to the authority).
Common example, Cheat-o complains all the time about fake news when he clearly means disloyal news. He uses loyalty as a truth standard (it isnt). The pattern fits.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)And that was even before going to the link to read this
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ProfessorGAC
(65,000 posts). . .was that all the "It" or Mueller responses only add up into the 70's. What happened with the other 75%? They don't trust anybody? They trust everybody equally?
Even without knowing the methodology, it's a really rotten way to present the findings.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)These polls crack me up. Anyone who truly identifies with the Democratic Party in any way would not trust Trump more than Mueller. They need a category for "former" or "registered as, but not really."
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)RM has perhaps the best reputation I have ever encountered in the US govt. That those who see Pee Diddle as having more credibility outnumber those not huffing paint by 4-1 is staggering.
The other numbers are still appalling, but at least the sane and aware outnumber the opposites.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)The current repubs put party before country. I don't understand the rest of your comment about the other numbers still being appalling.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)and we could win a lot. Let impeachment go. It motivates the trump supporters too much.
Texin
(2,595 posts)Of those that voted for Twitler, they're low information voters (or don't bother to vote anyway). I don't for a second buy into the notion that POTUS should be afforded respectability if he's doing his dead-level best to circle the bottom of the cesspool every single day. With tRump, it's a race to the bottom 24/7 365.