Not clear how successful. Trump had a 38% favorability rating on Election Day 2016, per the exit poll, much worse than Mitt Romney's 48% in 2012. But Hillary was at 43% as compared to Obama's 53%. His success came mostly from running vs. a candidate almost as unpopular as he was.https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/1155504734872190977 …
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Russia attacking us with phoney info didn't help much.
#IllegitimatePresident#ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW
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Do people really overlook that Hillary was less popular than a replacement candidate? Who do you think overlooks that?
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I was one of those and voted Hillary. My feelings toward her were never an excuse to ignore his lies, racism, rape accusations, and misogyny. Do you have link to any of the data? I'd love to be able to try and figure out what % of those were white voters over 40.
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I’m just citing the exit poll. The publicly available data can’t answer your question, but their dataset could when it becomes publicly available.
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So basically, a bunch of people said, “Fuck it, how bad could it be?” Now, they have an answer.
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Yet Trump's approval rating is relatively steady at that same approval rating he had before. The people who said "how bad could this be?" have (largely) not felt it has been that bad.
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People still overlook the key fact that Russian trolls/bots massaged US voter attitudes. 120 million voters saw Russian disinformation on social media. It influenced people about the candidates. When will you report on that? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/16/new-report-russian-disinformation-prepared-senate-shows-operations-scale-sweep/?utm_term=.1dfc37b2c2a1 …
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I'll never forget the campaign of vitriol against Clinton that sprung up among my leftist friends, seemingly overnight. They were sharing Russian generated fake news without giving it a second thought. I think the core problem is they'd never learned how to evaluate information.
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Agreed, and the key dividing line seems to be between these "nose holders" who voted for Trump and the "neither of the aboves" who voted for a minor-party candidate or a write-in or left the presidential race blank. There were a lot of those in 2016 too.
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The exit poll showed almost all of the third party or write-in votes came from this group.
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