• grumpsA
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    8 hours ago

    Based on the sample, this seems like a disingenuous poll.

    • We always deported felons. Yet, P01135809’s deportation rate is actually lower than Biden’s.

    • We always fought to eliminate fraud and waste. The GOP has invited felons convicted of fraud into the government.

    • The border isn’t closed and hasn’t been.

    If you’re asking these sorts of questions it feels more like push polling propaganda than an honest assessment of feelings.

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      6 hours ago

      It is a bullshit poll.

      eliminating fraud and waste in government expenditures

      If you ask that question, without being extremely specific as to how “fraud” and “waste” are defined, you’re going to get mass agreement. Nobody wants their tax dollars misused. But a Dem might say giving subsidies to the oil industry is fraud and waste, while a Republican might say any money spent on non-billionaires is fraud and waste.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s a disengenuous poll imo

      Penn was a chief strategist and pollster in the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign. Penn later became a defender of Donald Trump, opposing his impeachment, consulting on his 2020 presidential campaign, and alleging a “deep state” conspiracy against him.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 hours ago

      It doesn’t matter that we’ve always fought to eliminate fraud and waste and that the GOP is full of frauds. They support Dear Leader ‘eliminating’ fraud and waste.

      Facts don’t matter, man.

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        7 hours ago

        I guess that’s my point. If the poll is not based on anything other than bullshit, what’s the point of giving it any consideration?

        We may as well be discussing a poll on everyone’s favorite Teletubby.

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          I guess that’s my point. If the poll is not based on anything other than bullshit, what’s the point of giving it any consideration?

          Because people approve of bullshit. Because people vote based on bullshit. Because people form their worldviews on bullshit.