First look: Mueller gains credibility among swing voters

[spanone]

https://www.axios.com/first-look-mueller-gains-credibility-among-swing-voters-1526032725-9eda4a00-373c-4b12-83d0-e000c4f18caa.html?utm_source=sidebar

[Iliyah]

1. Ok

[IluvPitties]

2. Who are the Dems who trust Trump?

WTF is wrong with you, whoever you are?

[RKP5637]

3. 15.6% - Amazing, stunning.

[mucifer]

6. I think there are some people who will respect the president whoever he or she is.

Kind of a blind loyalty thing from zealot patriotism.

That's my theory anyway.

[RKP5637]

7. Makes sense! Something like the Stockholm Syndrome, sort of. n/t

[lagomorph777]

10. WTF? Fake Dems? Dems in caves?

[progressoid]

11. Half of them likely voted for Trump.

Exit polls showed 8% of Dems voted for him.

[Dopers_Greed]

17. They are probably Susan Sarandon fans also

[ProudLib72]

4. This proves Rs are really dumb

Now if Mueller started tweeting about "fake president" I might worry. But he isn't.

[malaise]

5. Get thee to the greatest page

Rec

[BlueJac]

8. Trump honest...

just laughable, is all I can say!

[spanone]

9. ....and trustworthy!!!!!

[genxlib]

12. This just boggles the mind

Regardless of how you feel about Trump, what had Mueller ever done to lose any trust.

He has done nothing other than serve our Country in multiple ways. He was asked to come out of retirement and has done not a single thing to earn any mistrust. Even if you trusted Trump, there would be no reason to trust him more than Mueller.

It just goes to show how effective a smear campaign can be when you can get a coordinated multi-pronged effort.

I would add that the responses only add up to about 75%. Which probably means that 25% didn't know or have any opinion. I reserve a special kind of disdain for those people. How could you not have an opinion at this point?

[MikeIsInProcess]

22. Disloyalty as falsehood

It makes perfect sense.

In the authoritarian mind, disloyalty is falsehood (and Mueller is seen as being disloyal to the authority).

Common example, Cheat-o complains all the time about “fake news” when he clearly means “disloyal news”. He uses loyalty as a truth standard (it isn’t). The pattern fits.

[nolabels]

13. The whole of the polling sounds a lot slanted to me

And that was even before going to the link to read this

(snip)

Firehouse Strategies, a Republican firm, partnered with the data analytics team at Optimus to interview 2,486 likely midterm voters in four swing states (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), and found that "the Mueller investigation is gaining credibility among independent voters."

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[ProfessorGAC]

19. The Other Odd Thing I Noted. . .

. . .was that all the "It" or Mueller responses only add up into the 70's. What happened with the other 75%? They don't trust anybody? They trust everybody equally?

Even without knowing the methodology, it's a really rotten way to present the findings.

[HopeAgain]

14. Okay, who exactly are the 15.6 percent?

These polls crack me up. Anyone who truly identifies with the Democratic Party in any way would not trust Trump more than Mueller. They need a category for "former" or "registered as, but not really."

[ailsagirl]

15. repukes are so damn stupid

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. That top category is mind-blowing!

RM has perhaps the best reputation I have ever encountered in the US govt. That those who see Pee Diddle as having more credibility outnumber those not huffing paint by 4-1 is staggering.

The other numbers are still appalling, but at least the sane and aware outnumber the opposites.

[DownriverDem]

20. Huh?

The current repubs put party before country. I don't understand the rest of your comment about the other numbers still being appalling.

[DownriverDem]

18. Stick with issues

and we could win a lot. Let impeachment go. It motivates the trump supporters too much.

[Texin]

21. They're DINOs. They self-identfy as Democrats, but voted for Twitler, Sanders or Stein.

Of those that voted for Twitler, they're low information voters (or don't bother to vote anyway). I don't for a second buy into the notion that POTUS should be afforded respectability if he's doing his dead-level best to circle the bottom of the cesspool every single day. With tRump, it's a race to the bottom 24/7 365.