Poll finds almost a third of Americans would support a military coup

[unhappycamper]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/11/military-coup-some-americans-would-vote-yes

Online survey shows 29% would support possible takeover while 41% said they could not imagine supporting such an event

Poll finds almost a third of Americans would support a military coup
Ellen Brait in New York
Saturday 12 September 2015 06.23 EDT

Almost a third of Americans could imagine supporting a military coup against their own government, according to a new poll.

The YouGov survey showed 29% of Americans could imagine supporting a coup. Yet, 41% said they could not imagine supporting such an event.

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They found that 43% of Republicans would support a military coup in certain instances, while only 20% of Democrats and 29% of independents would.

The overall numbers increased when participants were “asked whether they would hypothetically support the military stepping in to take control from a civilian government which is beginning to violate the constitution”. 43% said yes to this, and 29% said no.

[newfie11]

1. 29% of America has gone crazy! Nt

[PJMcK]

2. Online surveys are unscientific

Surveys on websites that require the respondent to actively seek out the survey do not provide a representative sample. For example, if Free Republic had a survey asking if President Obama should be impeached, their results would probably be near 100%. Would anyone from DU even know about the survey? In other words, what Nate Silver brilliantly exposed at the end of the 2012 presidential race was that an echo chamber will be wrong most of the time. This is from The Guardian article:

"Abraham Wyner, director of the undergraduate program in statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, said that online polls were “worse than just about any other way you can put together a poll” because they were prone to selection bias, meaning proper randomization was not achieved and the sample was not representative of the population – since people can choose to participate."

The illegitimacy of online polls won't stop the network and cable news from reporting them as facts, however.

[TexasProgresive]

3. + a million for good sense.

And DU polls are no more accurate.

[Downwinder]

4. That's silly, we have already had one.

Who is in charge?

The MIC or the President?

Is Gitmo open or closed?