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Post by JoeP on Feb 8, 2018 10:17:32 GMT
What it doesn't say is whether the number of registered Republicans has remained steady. I wouldn't be surprised if some have stopped holding their noses and shifted to 'independent' - meaning the Trump supporters would be a higher percentage of a reduced base.
Numbers. Do not trust them.
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Post by tangent on Feb 8, 2018 11:27:03 GMT
I think you misread something! Not even half 90% The 90% is solely among Republicans and Republican sympathisers, not the population as a whole. What it doesn't say is whether the number of registered Republicans has remained steady. I wouldn't be surprised if some have stopped holding their noses and shifted to 'independent' - meaning the Trump supporters would be a higher percentage of a reduced base. Numbers. Do not trust them. According to this poll, the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican - excluding those who are Republican leaners - has gone down from a high of 31% in February last year to 22% at the beginning of January. The percentage of Republican leaners has remained almost the same at 12%/13%. The numbers vary depending on how you ask the question and probably the time of day.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 8, 2018 14:39:59 GMT
Heh...February last year, nearly a third of the electorate considered themselves 'Republican'. A year later, the number of 'Republicans' in the electorate seems to have dropped to less than a quarter of the electorate.
Those too stupid to distance themselves from the Republican Party now think that the shithead in the Oval Office is acceptable.
This is no surprise.
Here's a hint: STOP GIVING CREDIBILITY TO POLLS.
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 9, 2018 11:08:02 GMT
Ah! I missed the "amongst Republicans" bit. I don't pay so much attention to things they think!
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 9, 2018 13:46:19 GMT
Yeah....It's rather like 'amongst morons'. Who really cares?
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Post by tangent on Feb 9, 2018 14:18:41 GMT
Whilst you say morons, some very intelligent people, and one of my Facebook friends are avid supporters of Trump. I can't think why. Maybe it's to do with culture and historical allegiance. You know, once a <thingy> always a <thingy>.
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Post by JoeP on Feb 9, 2018 14:58:32 GMT
Where is thingy anyway?
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 9, 2018 15:22:44 GMT
I think the word you search for, tangent, is "racist".
The 'intelligent' people I know who still hove to the Republican Party are all flaming racist haters.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 9, 2018 15:28:10 GMT
And then, there is the whole definition of 'intelligent'.
For example, do you consider Dr. Benjamin Carson to be 'intelligent'? I don't. Yet, he is a board certified neurosurgeon, which is an extremely demanding field which requires high levels of intelligence to succeed. The thing is, once outside the confines of neurology, neurosurgery and the basic sciences necessary for a medical degree, Carson is a moron of the lowest order. Have you heard some of his idiotic pronouncements?
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 9, 2018 16:16:22 GMT
Cognitive dissonance. They can't accept that what they think and have done for years (voting Republican) is wrong, so they refuse to accept it in spite of *any* evidence!
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 9, 2018 16:29:02 GMT
Skulking around the Highlands, last I saw. On F******K.
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Post by tangent on Feb 9, 2018 20:21:32 GMT
I think the word you search for, tangent, is "racist". The 'intelligent' people I know who still hove to the Republican Party are all flaming racist haters. I'm sure many of them are misguided and not racist at all. Not actively racist. My Facebook Republican friend does not appear to be actively racist.
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Post by Moose on Feb 9, 2018 21:46:31 GMT
90 percent? Sheesh .
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Post by tangent on Sept 6, 2018 6:34:47 GMT
Interesting article in the New York Times:
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 9, 2018 16:51:44 GMT
Yeah, there's lots of speculation on one of my other discussion boards on that one. Speculation is big as to who, but there is a vociferous subgroup which dismisses the whole thing as 'cowardice in the face of crisis'. Me? I suspect the author is trying to exonerate themselves from the mess which has arisen and they perceive as about to collapse. It's a 'face-saving' gesture to CYA. The problem is not just Dump, but all of the venal jackals that were brought in with him, enabled, and then released to prey upon the public, possibly even including the prevaricating asshat who penned the op-ed.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 28, 2018 17:30:21 GMT
I am not racist by any means. I dont really care what all the democrats and republican croanies are doing. Yes. I voted for trump. So what. That was because I didn't like Hillary. If they would have put another woman up there that was to my likening I would have voted for her. My platform was never what they were trying to sell ever. I don't care what the news says anymore because it's all just a bunch of disrespectful banter. As long as the economy is doing great I could care less what either side is selling. I find all of them a bunch of two faced. Now with that being said you know why and where I stood on this originally. What anyone thinks is not my issue and does not reflect what I think of others on any side.
There. I said it. Lol. You all know who I am. Lol
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 28, 2018 18:20:59 GMT
I'm sorry you feel that way kingedmund, because I think that people like you have been, and are continuing to be irreparably stupid in the face of obvious realities. Trump is an ignorant asshole and should never have been placed in office. He should have been disqualified from the moment he refused to provide his tax returns. He and his campaign were evidently willfully criminal and egregiously stupid about inviting in foreign powers to dabble in the US election. I personally think that the head shitgibbon should swing for treason. Yet, people like you ignore the obvious and allow the travesty to continue. Now, the Congressional Republicans are unveilling the most corrupt, perverse, and egregiously hypocritical act of Congress for generations...McConnell should also swing for his complicity in besmirching the US Constitution...he and Grassley. I think that you should be ashamed of how you voted and I think you should be even more ashamed of refusing to act to remove the entirely incompetent and incapable moron you and those like you have placed in the office of the highest official of the land. You should be very ashamed and I refuse to hear your namby-pamby fucking excuses about how you have no responsibility for the tragedy unfolding on the global stage where the head dumbshit has made my nation the laughingstock of the world.
Shame.
Suck it up and do the right thing.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 29, 2018 1:02:48 GMT
I personally could not care less. Got more important thing to focus on then waste time on anything other than my own stuff. All the bickering and people disrespecting one another because they believe they are right or better than the other has turned us off down here. Life goes on with th us.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 29, 2018 1:05:11 GMT
Extremism of both sides are a complete turnoff.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 29, 2018 5:40:50 GMT
I personally could not care less. Got more important thing to focus on then waste time on anything other than my own stuff. Yep... That is the problem. You are it.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 29, 2018 5:41:43 GMT
Extremism of both sides are a complete turnoff. The irresponsibility of those who say such is an abomination.
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