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Trump popularity. (lemy.lol)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Centrists: It's not all Republicans that support extremist candidates, there's still lots of non-extremists in the party!

Iowa caucus: Trump 51.0% DeSantis 21.2% Haley 19.1% Ramaswamy 7.7%

Leaving 1.0% or less that don't support an extremist candidate

[–] xantoxis 10 points 10 months ago

At 1% or less, you can assume we're talking about people who signed up for the wrong caucus by accident or something.

[–] adrian783 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*of the ones voted in the extreme weather

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Mmm. And what's going to be the excuse after the New Hampshire primary next week?

[–] splinty 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something like 14% of Iowan voters actually turned out. So 51% of that. It's still not ideal of course 🤷

[–] IMongoose 5 points 10 months ago

I don't think the Iowa caucuses are like normal voting. It's more like an event:

https://youtu.be/wP3d5sG-QM8

I don't think a single person under 40 was in that room, so these numbers and results track.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, 75,000 less people voted overall than in the 2016 caucus. Granted most of those probably died of covid or just didn't want to go in the cold, but still...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read on here a few days ago about Haley being representative of the LEAST extreme. That many of her voters would just end up voting Biden, even though they don't agree with most of the politics.

I could almost give them benefit of the doubt. Anyone ignorant enough to call Biden socialist though is immediately not worth talking to

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haley? As in Nikki "slavery wasn't a cause of the Civil War" Haley? Nikki "six week abortion ban" Haley? Nikki "withdraw the US from the Human Rights Council because of its 'chronic bias against Israel'" Haley?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Nikki "saying everything she thinks GOP wants to hear to get elected" Haley, yes.

I think Republicans are all selfish assholes, but the ones who are willing to avoid having trump as president can at least read