WTF? Fox News poll qestion: Do you believe God wanted Donald Trump to become president?

[highplainsdem]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/429942-one-quarter-say-they-believe-god-wanted-trump-to-become-president



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-did-god-favor-donald-trump-in-2016

A Fox News Poll released Wednesday finds 25 percent believe God wanted Trump to win the election. Sixty-two percent disagree and 14 are unsure.

Over half of white evangelical Christians, 55 percent, feel God put Trump in office. That drops to 36 percent among Protestants and 20 percent among Catholics.

Trump voters are nearly six times as likely as Clinton voters to believe God wanted Trump to win the election (46 vs. 8 percent). The results are nearly identical among Republicans (45 percent) and Democrats (9 percent).

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What a fucked up poll, and a fucked up poll question.

And FWIW, I don't for one second believe that even 8% of Clinton voters and 9% of Democrats believe God wanted Trump to be president.

Can you imagine how Fox News would have reacted if CNN or MSNBC had done a poll asking if people believed God wanted Barack Obama to become president?

[struggle4progress]

1. If God wants to help choose our President, God should become a citizen

and stand in line to vote like everybody else!

[LiberalFighter]

6. god needs to register to vote too.

If the birth certificate shows god not born in the United States then there need to be naturalization papers.

Otherwise, provide the birth certificate with birth in the United States.

The birth certificate would need to show name of parents.

When god registers to vote it must show residency at an actual address in the United States.

[Mike Nelson]

2. I heard...

… the same thing about Bush Jr. I would have thought God could be more powerful with the votes... and Hillary's popular vote win wasn't even close. Why is God so inept at fixing elections?

[highplainsdem]

13. I'm sure some Bush Jr supporters did say the same thing. But I don't recall any major news outlet

doing a poll so they could run a headline on how widespread the belief was.

Fox seems to be trying prop up this idiotic belief about Trump, and not just by giving Jerry Falwell Jr and others on the religious right a podium.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. So God's gaslighting us?

[world wide wally]

4. Just like He wanted Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachman

[regnaD kciN]

5. Could it be...SATAN???

[Progressive Jones]

7. Laughing My Elite, Muscular, Liberal Ass Off At The Very Concept!!!

Certainly no sane person would believe such nonsense.

[uponit7771]

8. The taxes she was be kicking their asses

[Drahthaardogs]

9. God doesn't Want. He wills...

Fucking blasphemy!

[WhiskeyWulf]

10. Pretty sure they don't believe God intervened in the previous two elections.

[happybird]

11. WTF is right

That is not sane.

And I figure that 8% has gotta be 4% margin of error and 4% trolls.

[doc03]

12. Not unless god is named Putin. nt