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Eugene

(67,316 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:29 AM Aug 2025

Voter frustration fails to trigger support for Musk's political party, poll finds

going with the headline on Yahoo! News' landing page

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Source: Yahoo! News

Poll: 14% of Americans would consider supporting Elon Musk's America Party

In contrast, 55% say they would not consider supporting Musk's party.

Andrew Romano, Reporter
Fri, August 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT
4 min read

On July 4, Tesla CEO Elon Musk asked his followers on X — the social media platform he owns — whether he should “create” something called the America Party to give them “independence” from the country’s “two-party (some would say uniparty) system.”

More than 1.2 million users responded to Musk’s snap poll: 65% said yes; 35% said no.

“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk vowed the following day.

Since then, however, Musk hasn’t taken any visible steps to deliver on his promise. A new Yahoo/YouGov survey — which captures a representative sample of the U.S. population, in contrast to informal social media polls — suggests possible challenges ahead: Just 14% of Americans say they would be open to “supporting a third party created by Musk.”

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/poll-14-of-americans-would-consider-supporting-elon-musks-america-party-120032134.html

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Musk's party is polling at the level of adultery, fungus infections and Dick Cheney.

Okay, okay, Cheney polled at 17% at the end of his reign.


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Voter frustration fails to trigger support for Musk's political party, poll finds (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2025 OP
The "America Party" isn't about America. Dulcinea Aug 2025 #1
Even if some people might hypothetically support the formation of a third party, Ocelot II Aug 2025 #2

Dulcinea

(10,313 posts)
1. The "America Party" isn't about America.
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

It's about Elon Musk. People are sick of him & can see through that.

Ocelot II

(131,241 posts)
2. Even if some people might hypothetically support the formation of a third party,
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:39 AM
Aug 2025

not so many seem interested in getting into a political bed with a Nazi lunatic.

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