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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 10:48 PM Feb 2021

Was election rigged? Party affiliation determines answer

Chuck Lindell
Austin American-Statesman

... the Hobby school found 83% of Texas Republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election ... Among Democrats, 87% said fraud was not an issue ...

Kirk Watson, dean of the Hobby school and a former Democratic state senator from Austin, pointed out that 55% of the 1,329 Texas adults surveyed did not believe there was widespread election fraud ...

... 76% of Republicans told Quinnipiac ... there was widespread fraudulent behavior in the 2020 election, 95% of Democrats disagreed, as did 59% who identified as independents.

... a majority of Americans — 59% to 36% — said voter fraud was not a problem ...

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/04/most-texas-republicans-see-election-fraud-most-democrats-dont/4389997001/

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Was election rigged? Party affiliation determines answer (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2021 OP
here's how it works - trump and fox and rush scream that it is going to be/was rigged. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2021 #1
Yup, it's a closed loop. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #2
Trump accounted for most of the misinformation kurtcagle Feb 2021 #3
Facts don't matter much to RepuQs. Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #4

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
1. here's how it works - trump and fox and rush scream that it is going to be/was rigged.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 10:50 PM
Feb 2021

his cult hear it and believe him. the cult is polled and of course they just vomit back what they were told.

kurtcagle

(1,602 posts)
3. Trump accounted for most of the misinformation
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 10:59 PM
Feb 2021

When he was forced into radio silence, figuratively speaking, it went a long way in clearing the airwaves.

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