Study: What Americans really think

By artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 8:04pm |

Difference between public and private opinions. Survey of 3,334 American adults, conducted May 23 to June 8, 2022

"The best predictor of private behavior is private opinion.

People's actual views are far more likely than their stated views to drive consumer and social behavior — and voting."

https://t.co/kaauQYgOch pic.twitter.com/KAXmR2mxey
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 18, 2022

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https://www.axios.com/2022/08/17/americans-voters-private-belief-poll-abortion-education-covid-19

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"People are often more moderate than they'll readily admit when 'being pulled toward a vocal fringe,' whether left or right."https://t.co/kaauQYgOch
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 8:06pm

check out the last sentence at Axios!

The intrigue: The study found the biggest disparities among Hispanic respondents and political independents. On 14 out of 25 topics, these groups had double-digit gaps between what they say and believe.

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 8:09pm

55% of Americans say the Democratic Party is too extreme in its positions, while 61% say the same about the Republican Party. https://t.co/C0R9gVDD62 pic.twitter.com/JblYvq3I2h
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 20, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 10:05pm

AUGUST 18, 2016

Clinton, Trump Supporters Have Starkly Different Views of a Changing Nation

Voters remain skeptical that either would make a good president

6 years ago, stark divisions in views of a changing nation:
59% of Hillary Clinton's voters said that life had gotten better "for people like them" compared with 50 years earlier.
81% of Donald Trump's voters said life had gotten worse.https://t.co/t0bNGQwlEL
— Carroll Doherty (@CarrollDoherty) August 19, 2022

THERE'S 7 MORE PAGES....

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 10:18pm

Surprising what propaganda can do. Trump = pro-business success, Hillary = unlikeable, hid her emails, war hawk. Same on racial and ethnic divisions is equally hocking and hilarious.

If you think of all the gravity-defying Trump defense, it all makes sense as the natural extension of take no prisoners fanaticism.

I'm curious about Liz Cheney's possible evolution/ways to explain it all.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/20/2022 - 1:42am

I very much doubt that one can learn much of anything useful about what "everybody thinks" from polling data. While it is almost certainly true that "The best predictor of private behavior is private opinion", it is also true that publicly, "Everybody Lies".

by A Guy Called LULU on Sat, 08/20/2022 - 11:17am

So here's an interesting thing people are 'lying' to the pollster about noted today

POLL

A new Morning Consult study finds Americans are less liberal than we were 5 years ago and the shift was largely driven by minorities.

% Identifying as Liberal 2017 2022
Hispanic: 50% 34% (-16)
Black: 49% 34% (-15)
Other: 40% 29% (-11)
White: 31% 25% (-6) pic.twitter.com/xDGbhSJbjv
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) August 19, 2022

Personally I think Woke elite are giving the word "liberal" an increasingly bad name. It's like his sarcasm in replies:

Latinx has been a big hit for liberals!
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) August 19, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/20/2022 - 1:03pm

p.s. here's a guy actually blaming AOC (ran across that looking for a link that's not Newsmmax-haven't found it)

The more she yaps, the more they lose. Morning Consult poll shows people identifying as liberal or very liberal over the past five years has dropped 7 points, to 27%. Used to be 34/38 liberal/conservative. That 4 point margin is now 12 points, 27/39.
— kap Pratt (@PrattKap) August 18, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 08/20/2022 - 1:09pm

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