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Old 01-07-2016, 09:57 AM   #2032
panerd
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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho View Post
Unless I'm completely misreading this, though, that result is from the poll of 515 likely Republican primary voters, of which only 5% identified themselves as Very or somewhat liberal.

Yes. My point being if we are to take the poll at face value the two extremes of those polled (very liberal and very conservative) are the most offended. While those in the middle likely are closer to the nationwide average. (one could debate what very liberal means for a likely GOP voters and the validity of their answers but then that also would question the validity of the Trump part as well wouldn't it?)

Qualifier: I am far from a Trump supporter. My rankings would go Paul, Clinton, 3rd party candidate, not voting, Trump. However those poll questions seem pretty skewed to create the "AHA! Trump supporters are..." moment where the Democratic questions are pretty basic and don't get into Obama taking away guns and the Oregon protesters. Why not have a leading question on the Democratic poll side like "Does a candidate having a husband impeached effect you voting or something controversial about BLM?

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