Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon

[Wicked Blue]

CNN
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN
Updated 2:39 PM ET, Sun February 7, 2021

QAnon has been in the news a lot in recent weeks. Polling shows that many people at least partially blame it for the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, and it's a scary and dangerous conspiracy theory.

But we should be clear that it truly is a fringe movement. True QAnon believers are a very small percentage of the population. Republicans should have little electoral fear of speaking out against QAnon in particular, even if certain conspiracy theories (such as falsely believing Donald Trump lost reelection only because of fraud) have been prevalent in some circles.

Last month, the NBC News poll asked voters whether they had positive, negative, neutral or no views of QAnon. A mere 2% held positive views. The rest were either negative (42%), neutral (11%), or weren't sure or didn't know (45%).

Keep in mind here that this poll was taken after the US Capitol insurrection, when many blamed QAnon for spreading misinformation that in part led to the event.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/politics/qanon-americans-analysis/index.html

[PJMcK]

1. What a surprise

Well, not really.

Most Americans want stability. It's the only way to achieve the American Dream™.

Most American corporations want stability. It's the only way to achieve profitability.

The chaos of Trumpism, Fascism, etc. will only upset the stability that the American economy demands in order to function.

QAnon is a dangerous anomaly but not a populist threat.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Who profits from American instability?

Russia. Instability raises the price of oil and gas, which drives their economy.

[PJMcK]

8. True but the Russian economy is a disaster

The only part of the Russian economy that benefits from its current policies are the oligarchs, essentially colleagues of Putin's.

The general population doesn't benefit from the current Russian economy. En masse, the oil and gas profits go to a privileged few and maybe to the actual energy-related workers. Some technological competent people make good money hacking for their government but generally, their technology development sucks and they have to steal American tech to function.

Most Russians do not enjoy a high quality of life compared to what Americans are used to.

[Cirque du So-What]

16. The oligarchs don't GAF about the Russian people

The oligarchs make out like bandits when energy costs rise due to instability, however.

[sfstaxprep]

2. The repubs NEED That 10%. It's Their Base

Without that 10%, they will Lose most of the elections across the country, except in those places where repubs will always win, no matter what.

[KPN]

4. Yup. They can't ignore it. They are hitched to QAnon

for the foreseeable future.

[Klaralven]

3. That's probably true for Qanon as a whole, but not for believers in one or more conspiracy theories

The polling mainly shows that the Qanon label's brand image is tarnished.

It doesn't mean that people have stopped believing in the constituent conspiracy theories or that they have changed their anti-government, anti-elite, anti-globalist attitudes.

[OriginalGeek]

14. The biggest QAnon supporter I know claims

He never heard of them until I showed him where all his whack job conspiracy theories came from.

Now he thinks I made all that up to be argumentative. He's still today posting Dominion conspiracies on his Facebook page as proof the election was stolen.

We were friends in high school 40 years ago. Now I just laugh at him.
Daily.

[hedda_foil]

6. Crappy headline! The article says only 2% of voters held positive views of QAnon. TWO PERCENT!

[TwilightZone]

11. The article references more than one poll.

The other (older) poll had it at 9%. Hence, less than 10%.

[Quixote1818]

7. Vice said there was about 30 million Americans in QAnon. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

12. That's Registrations

Vice was reporting people who registered.
I wouldn't be surprised that millions went there and realized it was the crazy train. Got off, never reboarded.
Others may have gone to check out the ridiculousness or to troll.
I'm quite certain it's not 30 million actual adherents.

[Initech]

9. I think that maybe 70% of my neighborhood is under the Q spell.

During our weekly meet up yesterday, the conversation shifted to Eric Garcetti and one of my neighbors just blurts out "Oh yeah he's funded by George Soros!". And then he starts just trash talking San Francisco and California in general. I just wanted to say "Oh yeah? If you hate California so much then what are you doing living here?".

Even worse the conversation drifted towards education and then all kinds of conspiracy theories about teaching kids gender identity and sex education opened up and things started really getting uncomfortable. Then they brought up the conspiracy theory (I'm sure Alex Jones is behind this one) about male athletes "identifying as" female athletes so they could win competitions. At that point I had to make an excuse and leave.

Oh and at one point one of my neighbors - who I am pretty sure is a raging hardcore racist, said that he was boycotting the Super Bowl because of the NFL's stance on supporting Black Lives Matter. And during the sex talk, he says to his wife - "they just approved this and you won't hear CNN say it because they are afraid of reporting this!"

Yeah I got to find a new place to live.

[relayerbob]

10. That some people don't associate the conspiracy thoeries with QAnon or understand the connection

Just goes to show how dangerous it really is

[Poiuyt]

13. 2% of Americans is over 6 million people

Waaay too many!

[David__77]

15. A small percentage can matter a lot.

I think this is such a case.

[KentuckyWoman]

17. 11% neutral bothers me

Even the 2% bothers me.

I take polls with a huge grain of salt. They seem to no longer be much to rely on, but the propaganda value can be huge. 2% of 350 million Americans is 7 million people.... pull out kids we end up with upwards of 3 Million supporting these whackadoodles?

That's a lot of crazy ...

[berksdem]

18. yet,

most still have no issues with them being in the QOP.

[mdbl]

19. One person subscribing to that bullshit is bad enough

Someone needs to expose who the assholes are that are spreading crap all over the earth other than right-wing hate radio hosts and Fux nooze. It's not a fringe movement it's a bowel movement and anyone with an IQ over 10 should know it.