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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Hmm that suggests the remaining ~10% must be from non-Republicans which is really depressing. I suppose he might have fans in the anti-vaxx movement still and a certain percentage of those are non-Republicans so maybe that explains it.

Edit: Just did some napkin math and it comes out to ~12% of non-Republicans approving of him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's probably the "alternative medicine, don't trust doctors" crowd, which traditionally wasn't a particularly right-wing thing but then merged with the right around the pandemic/QAnon time. Some of them must have been left behind.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can't just add up D and Rs and expect to get total population...

    A bunch of Americans still don't identify as either.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's why I specifically said non-Republicans.

    Edit: here, I'll walk you through the math. The article says 70% of Republicans approved of him and 33% of everyone approved of him. Republicans make up ~30% of the population. 70% of 30% is 21%. That leaves 12% unaccounted for (33-21). So 12% out of everyone both approves of him and doesn't identify as a Republican, while 21% out of everyone both approves of him and identifies as Republican. The remaining 67% of everyone doesn't approve of him whether or not they identify as a Republican.

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