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Amazingly, my two matched polls each had exactly 384 responses, over roughly the same 24h period, so this is a decent comparison. Notable that both sides have comparable closet support. IDW has bit more negative perception (33% vs 29%) and 10% vs 19% card-carrying support.
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I've done hundreds of polls on a variety of topics in the past, so I have a decent idea of the demographics of my sample (modulo twitter algo). It's significantly more male than female, tech crowd is overrepresented, and I'd say fairly centrist both culturally and economically.
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Why these two? From a variety of conversations, Woke and "Intellectual Dark Web" (IDW) are the two *intellectual* positions people seem to most often have in mind when they refer to "radicals" on other side, and most often have admitted (to me) closet support for one or other.
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It's useful to contrast sentiments about these two rather than their respective direct-action/populist street level supporters (desired or not) because they are sets of ideas rather than sets of he-said/she-said trigger events.
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A possibly worthwhile exercise for people on both sides to ask is: why are there so many people willing to offer closet support but not card-carrying support? And why are there so many people in neutral and adversarial?
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Note that there is no necessary anti-correlation here. I know from anecdotal evidence that many people voted adversarial on BOTH polls. These are the "dislike radicals on both sides" people.
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It's certainly possible to improve how I probed these sentiments. Someone suggested I should have asked about "closet adversary" which is a very good suggestion, but I felt neutral was a more important option to present, and that "adversarial" covered it well enough.
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Would be interesting to poll the individual issues separately from the aggregate labels. Bet people are often wrong about which side matches their views more closely.
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I don't think that matters because that's not how people form alignments in broadly polarized culture wars... it's a sort of spectrum auction/portfolio effect. You pick the basket you feel most comfortable with it at gestalt level.