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'Are you trying to kill us?' MAGA voters complain about Trump's 'depressing' nominees (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] ch00f 29 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

one Trump-supporting Truth Social user wrote in response to Trump's announcement.

but numerous commenters spoke out

One user, identified as @thompmark78,

A user with "Patriot. America First" in their bio

@Dbn281977, another user who frequently shares Trump's content

Another user, who posts in favor of Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and is identified as @Omi17,

A self-proclaimed Trump voter identified as @lutherbh1 complained about another aspect of Trump's transition.

So we're talking about maybe 15 people tops? I used to read these kinds of stories and tell myself that we were reaching the "find out" stage or whatever, but this is absolutely not a story. If it referenced any kind of poll data or wider reaching metric than reading a handful of tweets, there might be reason to hope, but as it stands, this is a nothingburger story that just gives you 15 minutes of feeling like there's justice in the world.

[–] kvasir476 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's pretty disturbing that a lot of reporting has turned into "we saw 10 replies on twitter (or worse truth social) and wrote a story about it."

[–] veganpizza69 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's difficult to do polling and social science well. The kind of answers you want cost a lot of money to obtain. Aside from that, conservatives don't like to admit that they lost publicly or... anywhere else, often not even to themselves.

[–] Dupree878 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Polling relies on people answering the phone or mail so you largely get responses from uneducated and out of touch people

[–] veganpizza69 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

And good researchers know how to control for that.

edit: typo

[–] Dupree878 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s no control when there’s no way to verify the accuracy of what people are telling you. You can’t verify their income, race, age, social status, truthfulness of answers (a recent problem was people not admitting they were Trump fans in 2016).

[–] veganpizza69 1 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't say that it was easy.

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