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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums96% of African Americans polled don't agree that Trump has gone too far over plan to ban Muslims?



Hispanic - 87%
African American - 96%
Other - 86%
Independent - 92%
Republican - 86%
What in the hell?
Is this for real?
ck4829
(37,761 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,054 posts)If they are fox viewers/readers - I think this probably included like - Allen West, Stacy Dash, and maybe 100 other people.
Renew Deal
(85,151 posts)marmar
(79,739 posts)I'm SHOCKED !!!!
NYC Liberal
(20,453 posts)(The same as all those online polls that show Sanders winning in a landslide.)
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)demmiblue
(39,719 posts)climber3986
(107 posts)Accusing people of having ulterior motive / agenda by simply being surprised at a poll like this is silly. Anyone seeing poll results like this would be shocked especially if they didn't know what was going on.
Riverside,
Anti-Muslim / right wing groups often target and vote bomb online polls where you can vote repeatedly to try to shape the narrative.
demmiblue
(39,719 posts)Poll, though, does rhyme with a lot of words.
climber3986
(107 posts)His post didn't seem like an endorsement, and you trying to tie him to it is sick.
demmiblue
(39,719 posts)I graciously give you the last word.
climber3986
(107 posts)going on to be confused and point this out.
but whatever, it seems you already have Riverside pegged as the same neo-nazis rigging the poll in the first place.
I bet he goes to monthly klan meetings as well, mods can we ban him off DU asap?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Inferring a motive, when based off of the consistency of posting patterns is neither a witch-hunt nor an accusation... it's an observation.
climber3986
(107 posts)Has he made similar threads like this using propaganda from right wing groups saying 'hey guys look at this!' ?
If so then you may have a point.
If not, then it just seems like a witch hunt. I tend to want to give people the benefit of the doubt before labeling them as a right wing bigot.
JI7
(93,615 posts)climber3986
(107 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)marmar
(79,739 posts)96% of people claiming to be African Americans in some Bing online poll.......
Now the question is, why would MSNBC run this crap?
Things that make you go... hmmm?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Alex Jones' InfoWars.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Are you talking about this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026626357
I'm confused.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)on MSNBC's website so I googled your OPs headline. The only place it showed up was on InfoWars. Where is the poll on MSNBC? Can you link to it?
Lancero
(3,276 posts)Takes a few seconds to find where MSNBC claims the poll however - https://twitter.com/RobertsMSNBC/status/674293758381412352
angrychair
(12,284 posts)Don't agree with poll results but the link to the poll is in the screenshot: pulse.msnbc.com you can go here -where it redirects- scroll down: https://app.bingpulse.com/msnbcdayside/daypulse
Reter
(2,188 posts)Probably online, but I want to find a link to the video.
brush
(61,033 posts)I wonder what the agenda is to call out AAs only?
demmiblue
(39,719 posts)I would check out the source of your pictures, but I am not on my desktop. Curious minds and all.
angrychair
(12,284 posts)Don't agree with poll results but the link to the poll is in the screenshot: pulse.msnbc.com you can go here -where it redirects- scroll down: https://app.bingpulse.com/msnbcdayside/daypulse
LexVegas
(6,959 posts)Matrosov
(1,098 posts)still_one
(98,883 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)The older some get, the kinder some get.
Also, I question the sample size as well. It's not like most people don't know a black muslim or two. To where are the Farrakhan followers to be deported, I have to ask?
I call "shenanigans" on the methodology of this mess.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)The African American community is getting slammed by unskilled, uneducated, limited-English immigrants (from everywhere) willing to take crappy jobs at low wages, thereby making African Americans a permanent underclass.
I would surprised if they did not take an anti-immigrant position.
1939
(1,683 posts)While I don't believe the numbers in the poll since an on-line poll is "self selected", I would not be surprised to see higher A-A numbers in any poll about immigrant groups. I have nothing concrete to back that up, just a feeling. .
marmar
(79,739 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(101,852 posts)TPTB would sure love to turn minorities against one another though...
Also, it's a unscientific poll and all the races came off as xenophobic.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Low wage jobs that has Black folks as an under-class.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)I agree there are many issues going on, but I'm a 91 year old Jewish guy. I served in WWII.
Back in the 1930s, the thugs of the Bronx had a Yiddish accent. We were the underclass and feared.
Not sure why people don't remember this, and there was some "good" reason for the fear -- we were dirt poor, "different," and yes, we did all sorts of crime and were locked out of a lot of jobs.
Restaurants, stores, apartments, etc, had "no Jews" policies.
And we weren't helping things. I was well on my way to being a career criminal prior to WWII, and guilty of several bad things, from burglary to robbery. I ran with a gang that did terrible things that they now make gangster movies about and glorify. (After the war, where I was made a MP because I dealt with Germans being a native German speaker, I oddly became a cop before going to college and later law school.)
Anyway, over the course of the almost century in which I have lived, we Yids (that used to be the equivalent of various nasty words for blacks, also largely in the dustbin) somehow became tolerable.
I still talk funny, look a bit odd, and have funny practices. I'm part of the "other."
Yes, I still face routine discrimination. In any big city, I will get cat calls ("Jooooo..."
, hard shoulders, and funny looks. As I related in another post, not very long ago, I was filling up my rental car in Hobby Airport when a kid leaned out of his car window and chunked a red slurpee all over me with the call "f---g Jooooooooo."
That kind of stuff never goes away. Some people are just assholes. Undoubtedly you get your share, probably more.
But it does fade away to the fringes.
Somehow Jewish people as a group ceased to be underclass, including me. I directly reported to a President of the USA, for example.
What happened is WWII. Immigration was shut down, workers (and soldiers) were needed (even us Yids), and we moved up the monetary (if not exactly polite society) ladder, and things got much, much better.
The same opportunity needs to be made available for blacks.
I believe certain elements of our political class, motivated by the cynical desire for money are intentionally keeping this opportunity from blacks because they want cheap labor. It's slavery under a different name.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Notwithstanding the fact that many posters in GD-P seem to vastly prefer them to real polls, for some reason.
ck4829
(37,761 posts)They frequently put up links to polls by the "malicious media" and tell people to do this...
"MSNBC Poll: Did Trump go too far? VOTE NO! (& keep voting NO every 5 secs)"
riversedge
(80,810 posts)DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)I indicated I was 35-42, male and Native American. I am none of those things.
Then I answered the questions opposite of what I really think.
So much for polls...phone, online or TV.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,210 posts)DURHAM D
(33,054 posts)Do you have those in the UK?
ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)about white southerners - you would not be getting all this blowback.
melman
(7,681 posts)People here are pretty transparent that way.
Faux pas
(16,356 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)meaningless.
MineralMan
(151,269 posts)Click it once,
Click it twice,
Click it thrice or more.
Online polls get clicked
and clicked and clicked
They're really quite a bore.
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,852 posts)1) The numbers for all groups are alarmingly high
2) It's a online opt in poll and consequently has little or no descriptive value.
JI7
(93,615 posts)You take some non scientific poll and try to use it against an entire community now.
Look everyone it's the blacks that are the problem
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Go ahead and quote the post where I did that.
You take some non scientific poll and try to use it against an entire community now.
Where the hell did you get that from?
I thought the poll was bullshit which is why I wondered why MSNBC went with it. I never attributed it to African Americans, anyone with half a brain there is just no way 96% of African Americans polled would agree with his statements nor would 83% of democrats.
That's why I posted
Instead of getting pissed off at me maybe you should be asking why MSNBC aired some bullshit online poll. What is their agenda here?
You really need to take it down a notch.
JI7
(93,615 posts)951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)What? Where did I ever suggest that?
I don't mind you confronting me but you cannot just continue to make up stuff. People can read what I posted and said.
patsimp
(915 posts)agnostic102
(198 posts)i cant believe this.. arent like 25 percent of african americans muslim? this poll is very confusing? how did they get these results?
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Look at the age breakdown. Are they telling me the youngest age cohort agrees with Trump more than the older age cohorts? No way. I'm not buying that for a second. And they're telling me Democrats and Republicans line up within 3 points of each other? With overwhelming support for Trump's statements? There is no way this poll is accurate.