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    41% approving is way too high. WTF is wrong with people? And 51% approved of his handling of gender and trans people? What in the actual fuck? I am so deeply disappointed in my fellow Americans

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      They are in a cult. Literally, that’s not exaggeration. If you interviewed people led by Marshall Applewhite right before they committed suicide to “follow” him, they would give him high approval ratings too. These polls are flawed and will never show the true picture…

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      About 1/3 of the electorate is composed of backward degenerates. Trump’s approval will never go lower than that. Where the other ~8% come from is the real question. Independents can be a really fucking dumb lot, if you haven’t noticed.

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      I keep saying mental health but no one seems to want to agree with me. They just want to blame the first causal factor they find.

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    Considering the propaganda machine of the far right is running at full tilt, and that Fox news has the highest ratings (while still decrying the “mainstream media”), this is jaw dropping.

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    How do they make these polls? By calling people on their landlines? Who are they going to reach like that?

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      Our Omnibus draws samples entirely from the SSRS Opinion Panel, which has a probability-based recruitment methodology. No one can volunteer or sign up for the SSRS Opinion Panel; members are randomly selected and invited to participate. The panel recruits randomly selected panelists using a nationally-representative address-based sample (ABS) design with a randomly dialed prepaid cell phone supplement (RDD). This reduces the risk of bias and ensures that bots or fraudulent panelists are not recruited.

      So, people who answer strange phone numbers. I think 15 years ago that would have been fine. But now, not so much, and I really don’t think this filter is talked about as much as much as I would like.

      Try looking for “ssrs scams”, and mixed into that are actual experiences with the survey, by people asking about what they experienced. Also mixed into are the various actual scams that pretend to be legitimate.

      A huge percentage of mentally healthy USA adults would not participate

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    Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term.

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    FORTUNATELY American Voters have no Choice but to Vote for this Again so our Politicians can Rest Easy knowing their Jobs are SAFE!

    -Chuck Schumer and the DNC!