Poll: 1-in-4 voters believe Trump's vote-fraud claims

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By JAKE SHERMAN 02/01/17 06:33 AM EST

One in four voters believe President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that millions of votes were illegally cast in the 2016 election, but more people believe that Trump benefited from any electoral malfeasance instead of Hillary Clinton.

A new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey showed that 25 percent of registered voters say they agree with Trump that millions of people improperly cast ballots last November. But if the election was subject to voter fraud, 35 percent say it's more likely any improper votes benefited Trump, and 30 percent say they benefited Clinton.

In the opening days of the Trump administration, the White House has signaled that it would open an investigation into voter fraud, even though there is scant evidence of widespread issues with the nation's electoral system.

Overall, the new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll — which was conducted Jan. 26 through Jan. 28 among 1,991 voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent — paints a mixed picture for the new president.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/poll-donald-trump-voter-fraud-234458

[NurseJackie]

1. Our nation isn't a smart or as "exceptional" as its citizens believe.

[Bettie]

17. There's always those at the slow end

of the bell curve.

And it is of voters. So, roughly 1/4 of the people who voted, which was about half of those who were eligible and half of those who voted for DumpsterFire, believe this.

Like I said, slow end of the curve.

[BigDemVoter]

2. I'm actually relieved that it's not MORE than 25%!

We live in a nation of fucking idiots.

[redstateblues]

5. That's what I thought. Could've been worse

[KittyWampus]

21. Agreed.I thought it'd be about 35%

[ffr]

3. The bigger question is where are 25% of voters getting that information from!

They didn't come to that conclusion on their own. Someone had to tell them repeatedly that this misinformation was somehow fact.

And wouldn't it be nice if democrats could count on 25% of the voting demographic to support their causes NO MATTER WHAT and NO MATTER HOW KOOKY?

Just mind blowing how uninformed the electorate is. Oh wait, look at the idiot they elected.

[leftynyc]

4. BFD

I'm surprised that number isn't actually higher. It also means a substantial number of the degenerate's voters don't believe it.

[orangecrush]

6. Good

We outnumber them.

I like those odds.

[Botany]

7. And people used to call and send telegrams to the coast guard/navy to rescue ...

.... the people from "The Minnow" who were stuck on Gilligan's Island too.

Trump's base is crazy, stupid, and or on meth. Russia, Fox News, and certain
social media outlets feed into their fantasy world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/finally-someone-who-thinks-like-me/2016/10/01/c9b6f334-7f68-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html?utm_term=.5d70d5d5a58e

‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.’

[yellowcanine]

8. About the same % who think Noah took baby dinosaurs onto the ark.

[dchill]

22. How else...

could Jesus have ridden them? Huh?

I rest their case.

[Brother Buzz]

9. 1-in-4 voters believe library paste is a food group

[MFM008]

11. Lol

When I was 7 it was!

[MFM008]

10. We already GET these

People are morons.

[IronLionZion]

12. A lot of Americans were illegal before the 15th and 19th amendments

so these assholes are going to use this BS as an excuse to block people who look like liberals from voting.

[Blue Idaho]

13. Tea Baggers...

Roughly equal to the number of lunatic Tea Baggers in America.

[Dream Girl]

14. Or 75% don't believe them!

I've seen consistency through the years that there is a floor of about 25%-30% far right wingers who will never move.
They are rock solid in the crazy. Another 15% - 20% or so are movable with some reason and logic and self interest applied.

[VWolf]

16. Yeah, those 25% or so are called the backwash for good reason n/t

[VWolf]

15. I'm willing to bet

these are the same people who think the moon landings were staged.

[Doitnow]

18. That means 3 out of 4 don't.

[Snellius]

19. Believe it cuz true or true cuz believe it?

What is wrong with our educational system that turns out so many ignorant no-nothing yahoos? It's not so much that conservatives don't have an ideological argument which can be considered and debated like in the Buckley days. The right is just a tribe of lunatic haters who believe in nothing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. 1 in 4 voters will support trump till the bitter end, these are the people who still supported Bush

in 07

[roamer65]

23. Right around Nixon's approval in August 1974.