Would he even know?Originally Posted by acesfull86
Would he even know?
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acesfull86 (03-22-2024)
This DEI hire might actually cost Biden reelection
The idea that Biden won fairly in 2020 is a joke.
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I promise you that Trump is not the comic book genius villain y'all think he is
"I can't fix my life, but I can fix the world" said the socialist
Republicans Who Do Not Regularly Watch Fox Are Less Likely to Back Trump
Survey data shows more of them believe he acted criminally.
By Ruth Igielnik
March 23, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET
Republicans who get their news from nonconservative mainstream media outlets are less likely to support Donald J. Trump than those who follow conservative outlets. And sizable numbers from the first group say they think Mr. Trump acted criminally, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll.
This division could affect his standing among Republicans in the general electorate — a decidedly different group from G.O.P. primary voters. That is in line with research that shows that changing the media habits of Fox News consumers may actually change their views.
One hundred percent of the Republicans in our poll who said they got their news from Fox News or other conservative sources said they intended to support Mr. Trump in the general election. This stands in contrast to Republicans whose main media sources are outlets like CNN and major news organizations: Seventy-nine percent of them plan to vote for Mr. Trump, and 13 percent said they planned to vote for President Biden.
Despite the perception that most Republicans watch Fox News, the share of Republicans who said they got their news from sources like CNN and major newspapers was similar to the share who said they primarily consumed conservative media — roughly 30 percent in each case.
These Republicans differ from consumers of conservative media primarily in terms of their ideology: They were much more likely to describe themselves as politically moderate. Nikki Haley had about 30 percent support among these Republicans and 4 percent among conservative media consumers (the poll was taken before Ms. Haley dropped out of the race).
Researchers have long pondered a kind of chicken-and-egg question with conservatism and conservative media: Does watching more conservative media change your views, or are you more attracted to it because of your views? Two political scientists, David Broockman at Berkeley and Joshua Kalla at Yale, conducted an experiment trying to answer that question.
“We know from our other research that many Fox News viewers are in an echo chamber and are quite conservative,” Mr. Broockman said. “There’s a lot of skepticism that strong partisans could not be persuaded and we wanted to challenge that assumption.”
In their experiment, they randomly assigned Fox News viewers to watch CNN for a month, comparing their political views after they switched to the network with Fox viewers who did not make the switch. The result? Getting conservative news viewers to watch mainstream news caused many of the participants to shift away from hard-right views on a number of issues like immigration and race relations. And they found changes in how participants evaluated Mr. Trump.
“It was amazing to see that the study participants learned new facts about the world from watching CNN,” Mr. Kalla said. “These are people who don’t trust CNN; they think it’s propaganda and fiction.
“The fact that they find that these people, in particular, learn something new about the world suggests that they’re more open to persuasion and hearing the other side than we might assume.”
Participants did not just move toward moderate views on issues like immigration; they also started to question their trust in Fox News itself. At the end of the study, respondents were less likely to agree with the statement: “If Donald Trump did something bad, Fox News would discuss it.”
Experiments like this have little real-world application, but they do reinforce the notion that conservative news viewers see the current political landscape through a different lens.
This extends to how Republicans are thinking about the criminal charges their party’s nominee faces. Republicans who consume nonconservative mainstream media were more likely to say that the charges against Mr. Trump were legitimate, that Mr. Trump knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen, and that he should be found guilty in the election interference trial in Washington, according to a December survey.
And in the recent survey, the gap between the two types of Republicans persists. Republicans who watch mainstream media are over three times as likely to say Mr. Trump acted criminally as those who consume conservative media. And the share of mainstream media Republicans saying this has grown over the last two years, reaching a peak of 43 percent in December. It is now down to 34 percent.
“I do think that concealing private documents with perhaps the intent to disseminate them is to an extent treason,” said Briana Dunbar, 20, a political science student at Ohio State who says she is considering supporting Mr. Trump in the fall. “If he is found guilty, I will not vote for him.”
“But I’m not the judge and it’s not up to me,” added Ms. Dunbar, who said she gets most of her news from ABC News or her political science classes. “Once the ruling comes down, I will trust what they say. If he’s not guilty, that’s probably who I would vote for. But November is a ways away.”
While a notable share of these mainstream media Republicans say they do not plan to back Mr. Trump, many could ultimately decide to vote for him in November. In 2016, after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Mr. Trump was recorded boasting about groping women, many in the party considered deserting him. Even most of those voters found a way back to their party’s nominee.
Among conservative media Republicans, the share who said Mr. Trump did not commit crimes has remained largely unchanged.
Nateasha Friesen, 56, of Fresno, Calif., is an avid consumer of news from places like Newsmax and The Epoch Times, news outlets that she says are “not the media telling me what to think and instead allowing me to make an educated decision for myself.”
“I triangulate the information that I’m getting, with a focus on figuring out what their sources are and the transparency that they’re providing,” she said.
Ms. Friesen plans to support Mr. Trump in the fall. “My views on this have been very steady: He has not committed any crimes. I’m pretty confident the trials are politically motivated.”
About 10 percent of independents say they watch conservative news, and nearly all of them say they lean toward the Republican Party.
A much smaller group of Republicans surveyed — around 13 percent — primarily got their news from social media. This group supported Mr. Trump at a rate as high as those consuming conservative media, but they were more inclined to agree with mainstream media Republicans that Mr. Trump committed crimes. Still, this group saw the charges as primarily politically motivated.
But these social media Republicans were far younger than other Republicans. They were also less likely to say they planned to vote in November.
Last edited by 57Brave; 03-23-2024 at 05:57 AM.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Sure thing - we believe it!
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"we"
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
Where is the gullible thread
Trunp is now calling for a primary challenger of Florida's secretary of state.
Her crime? Endorsing RDS in the primary
This guy is a joke
John F Kennedy re-incarnate wouldn't make a lick of difference in helping to get Biden re-elected. Biden has continuously ran his Presidency straight into the toilet.
Its not helping Biden that when people look back on Trumps four years they think of low inflation and world peace.
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And historic job losses and economic crashes.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Literally only 25% of the country actually thinks this is Trumps fault....
Keep running with it though.
The rest of the country knows that we had more peace in the world than we had in decades and the US economy was HUMMING.
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Whats going to happen is that price of real estate will continue to incraese in Florida and people will start to move out but it won't really impact till RDS is out of office. Then the usual suspects will say "RDS DREW PEOPLE TO THE STATE!!!"
Natural Immunity Croc
What causes real estate prices to increase, do you think?
"I can't fix my life, but I can fix the world" said the socialist
Demand - What causes people to move to areas?
Do you think weather and affordability matters?
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Remember all those times we were told the cases were going to hurt Trump in the general?
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