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Poll: 55% of REPUBLICANS say Trump should NOT fire Mueller, 22% say he should (Original Post) yurbud Apr 2018 OP
The remaining 23% are too illiterate to complete a poll. fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 #1
Encourage by this somewhat. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #2
Congresscritters care a lot more about what "people in my district" think, than "Americans" jberryhill Apr 2018 #3
And people in "their district" kennetha Apr 2018 #4
Note the percentage of REPUBLICANS yurbud Apr 2018 #5
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. Congresscritters care a lot more about what "people in my district" think, than "Americans"
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:49 PM
Apr 2018

When you consider the fact that there is a population within Texas who thinks that Louis Gohmert Pyle is their best and brightest, a national poll is entirely meaningless to his prospects for re-election.

kennetha

(3,666 posts)
4. And people in "their district"
Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:52 PM
Apr 2018

are mostly gerrymandered to be ideologically homogeneous. So when they say that, they are giving the finger to the more diverse public at large.

If we don't want such intense and destructive polarization, we need to change that. As many districts as possible need to be as diverse as they reasonably be. the health of the "Republic" depends on it.

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