Originally posted by: Robert Davis
I read the results of the survey. I so much enjoy reading the crosstabs. I was disappointed that there wasn't any significance testing so that it could be determined if there was a 95% CI between groups. With so many voters now days registered as independents, the results that I will be presenting will compare those with differenct idiologies. As far as conservatives, 73% of them want deportations to be a high priority vs. 19% of liberals and 39% of moderates. In terms of deportations having no priority, 6% of conservatives want it to have no priority compared to 57% of liberals and 24% of moderates. Overall, 94% of conservatives want it to have a high/moderate priority. Other results I find interesting are that 80% of conservatives are in favor ot tariffs even though 40% agree that they will lead to higher prices. Fewer than 1/2 of moderates (47%) and 1/4 of liberals (25%) favor Trump tariffs. In terms of Trump tariffs leading to higher prices, 62% of moderates and 85% of liberals responded that they think they will.
As soon as I saw the ridiculously flawed methodology used--a common blunder when the survey-taker wants to produce a given result--I stopped reading.
As far as favoring or not favoring tariffs, the answers are meaningless without context--namely, did a given responder even know what tariffs are and how they work? The MAGA enthusiasm for them suggests ignorance; and of course, we know that the Orange Turd thinks that tariffs are paid by exporting nations, which is ludicrously wrong.