Even though most voters say that the case against the former president is “strong,” they don’t want to see him serving jail time
I’d take this with a grain of salt. Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and one of three who supervised this poll, is a known Trump supporter who believes in the Democratic “deep state” conspiracy theory. Dritan Nesho, CEO of HarrisX and the second person supervising this poll, tries to appear bipartisan in public, is a little more discreet but is also a Trump supporter. I gave up looking up stuff on these people cuz I feel gross now. Dunno how The Harris Poll and HarrisX are affiliated. Yeah this poll is b.s.
It’s silly to judge a polling outfit solely on the politics of their CEO.
FWIW, 538 gave Harris a “B” grade with 83% accuracy in 2020. If anything, Harris seemed to overestimate Biden’s support (eg they predicted Trump would lose FL and NC).
Their accuracy of their election prediction is separate from their polling bias. I mentioned in a higher comment that their polling technique has been described as “when Harvard Poll meets Fox News” and that they “cherrypick to advance agendas”
There is no way that 53% is correct. Is everyone really that fucking dumb
they sampled an incredibly small sample size. It’s extremely easy to get fucked up results from assuming that you can make a poll representative of Americans as a whole. Like. where I live… most people in the state want him locked up (or you know. burned at the stake.) But, you go an hour out the cities and even the democrats there would be likely to express some hesitancy. Because it’s trump country out there.
and that assumes the poll wasn’t meant to get this result (for example polling in ways that get maybe more conservative democrats. or people simply lying and saying they’re democrats.)
The section that says “Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income,
employment, education, political party, and political ideology where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online.” kinda sticks out to me, too.Yeah, that admission kind of makes me pause when considering the results. There should have been a page of the published poll that better described how this was taken. For instance, doing just a LAN line poll skews poll results considerably.
But it’s only the beginning of the fed case against Trump, so I’m sure opinion will change.
I mean, I tend to bet on the average person’s stupidity. So I’d answer yes?
Dems continuously win the popular vote, which means 0 Republicans would say no to this and some Dems would say yes? I’m not buying that.
Agreed. This poll is hard to believe. There was another one last week saying a majority agreed with the indictment. There’s lies, dammed lies, and polls.
Take this with a grain of salt. A pollster can come up with any results they want if they ask the question carefully.
This is almost certainly something put out by Trump’s team to manipulate public opinion. It’s bullshit and not worth anyone’s energy.
Prison for the rest of his life, to set a precedent that Nobody is above the law. And that all conmen deserve punishment.
No. He did too much damage and changed laws so he could hurt others and it bit him in the ass. Why should he be pardoned?
For us to survive as a democracy, he needs to rot in jail.
Regarding President Joe Biden, Trump’s disinformation campaign against him and his son, Hunter, also appears to have taken root in voters’ minds. The majority of respondents, 55 percent, said the FBI is “not really investigating” corruption allegations against Biden while 57 percent believe Biden “took a $5 million bribe” while serving as vice president, despite no evidence of that occurring.
this shows you who they polled.
