Are 74% of Americans now conspiracy theorists?
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The American people -- Republican and Democrat -- are waking up.
Once again, a completely non-scientific poll. In order to be a legitimate representative poll, the participants MUST be randomly chosen. Self-Selection participation does not produce valid results.
These are known as "SLOP" polls because they are invalid.
You want an example? Let's say the Sports Animal put out an online poll asking the question: Is ou one of the favorites to win a national championship next year (Y) or (N)? Given the make-up of the audience, what in the hell do you think the results would be? Think it may be "weighted" (biased) just a teeny-tiny bit towards ou?
These are known as "SLOP" polls because they are invalid.
You want an example? Let's say the Sports Animal put out an online poll asking the question: Is ou one of the favorites to win a national championship next year (Y) or (N)? Given the make-up of the audience, what in the hell do you think the results would be? Think it may be "weighted" (biased) just a teeny-tiny bit towards ou?
You were saying?
METHODOLOGY
The Monmouth University Poll was sponsored and conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute from March 2 to 5, 2018 with a national random sample of 803 adults age 18 and older, in English. This includes 400 contacted by a live interviewer on a landline telephone and 403 contacted by a live interviewer on a cell phone. Telephone numbers were selected through random digit dialing and landline respondents were selected with a modified Troldahl-Carter youngest adult household screen. Monmouth is responsible for all aspects of the survey design, data weighting and analysis. Final sample is weighted for region, age, education, gender and race based on US Census information. Data collection support provided by Braun Research (field) and SSI (RDD sample). For results based on this sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling has a maximum margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points (unadjusted for sample design). Sampling error can be larger for sub- groups (see table below). In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
My bad, earlier in the day I read on another forum that this was an online poll by Drudge.
So, I would accept that Monmouth polling is a legitimate polling organization and accept it's results. I apologize for confusing the subject.
So, I would accept that Monmouth polling is a legitimate polling organization and accept it's results. I apologize for confusing the subject.
I did look at the results and found them very interesting. The biggest percentage of true believers seem to come from the far-left and the far-right.
Regardless of whether or not the deep state is real, does the belief that it is real end up getting successfully used by candidates? Could the Libertarian party use this as a foothold?
No, because most people like the deep state (defense, law enforcement, national security) in the abstract. They only dislike it in specific instances, like when they perceive it as being controlled by their political rivals, and in those cases their preferred political party puts up a more effective fight than the libertarians do.
trump answered your first question directly
and the second
imo there’s no chance for 3rd party candidate
you have to co-opt the party in the manner in which the donald did to battle deep state
he didn’t owe anybody
All you have to do to believe there is a deep state is delve into the recently passed omnibus bill that was passed without an actual debate and no one being able to read it in it's entirety before voting.
Trump's going to have to do a lot of winning to overcome that turd in the punch bowl.
Our current group of legislators both fed and state disgust me. That goes for Dems and Repubs.
Trump's going to have to do a lot of winning to overcome that turd in the punch bowl.
Our current group of legislators both fed and state disgust me. That goes for Dems and Repubs.
