ABC poll: only 36% of Americans wanted DT to win.

[pnwmom]

Too bad more Americans didn't vote.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/public-splits-trumps-ethics-compliance-quarters-tax-returns/story?id=44811545

These divisions also are evident in another measure: Among Americans who say they wanted Trump to win the presidency -- 36 percent of the public -- a broad 85 percent think he’s in compliance ethically. That drops to just 11 percent of those who wanted Hillary Clinton to win (39 percent of all adults) and a third of those who preferred other candidates, or none of them.

[Farmgirl1961]

1. Which is 36% too many

[triron]

2. I did a quick calculation using these numbers

Assuming the 39% or 36% actually voted for Clinton or Trump, Hillary would win popular vote by 52%-48% of Clinton/Trump voters or a 4% margin. But according to counted vote results she only won the popular vote by about 51.1% to 48.9% Clinton/Trump voters. I am excluding 3rd party candidates votes for simplicity. So apparently either a significant number who wanted Hillary to win didn't have their votes counted (or switched) or they just didn't vote. We are talking about approximately 2.5 million voters!

[mythology]

5. The election was held in November, the poll was taken in January

Your calculations don't suggest anything other than people who make large mistakes often deny they made a mistake. For example people who voted for Trump might be regretting that today and not want to admit they made a mistake.

[TheFrenchRazor]

7. why is it that in polls, it's only the repugs who "don't want to admit" who they voted for? i have n

never found the republicans i know to be shy about voicing their political opinions, yet when polls are "wrong" they almost always indicate that repugs got a whole lot of votes that can not be accounted for.

[triron]

3. So 25% preferred other candidates or none.

Sounds like most of those 25% did not vote.

[pkdu]

4. 36% of the registered American voting public did NOT vote the shitgibbon

he got around 25% ( or 100% of the racist/misogynist/anti-gay vote)

[TheFrenchRazor]

6. but no... the election wasn't hacked at all... nt