12-07-2017, 02:46 PM
(12-07-2017, 11:40 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: At least Quinnipiac polls post their methodology. Interestingly if you dig into their questions as to party affiliation you'll see Democrats comprise 33% of the questioned, Republicans 21%, with 38% saying Independent 8% went with "Other" (I imagine other could mean everything from Nazis, to Libertarians to Communists). As such this poll merely points out that Democrats think the Democratic Party is better.
Most interestingly the respondents seem to have come mostly from landline users. That of course means Boomers. So we can conclude from this poll that Democrat Boomers like the Democrat party.
Smells of fake poll to me.
One must take gerrymandering into account in any prediction of the results of the 2018 election. This said, I find it hard to believe that all of the gain in support for Democrats will be in districts with overwhelming Democratic majorities. Large shifts typically take place among voters near the middle of the political spectrum.
Q is a highly-respected pollster. Question: what do you want to believe?
Sure, all sorts of crazy things are possible between now and November 2018, like a great change in the political culture to the benefit of President Trump and the GOP. You are as free to predict such as you are to believe that space aliens will soon land on the White House lawn.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.