• Chainweasel
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    7824 days ago

    If “nearly half” disprove that means more than half approve.
    That’s fucking disgusting.

    • @floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      24 days ago

      There’s always a good percentage that are indifferent or “don’t know”. But they’re no help.

        • @CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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          624 days ago

          The people that don’t care will continue to not care until it affects them directly. Even with the tariffs it won’t matter until what they’re actually buying gets hit by the price hikes. Even then they may not even be paying enough attention to their finances to notice.

          • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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            122 days ago

            And even if they express disapproval they will vote or not vote in the same manner because the other side is worse or both are bad.

    • @arrow74@lemm.ee
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      2024 days ago

      Per the article:

      47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.

      45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.

      That leaves 19% and 17% that are undecided. The question for those would be are they uninterested or uninformed?

    • @Ooops@feddit.org
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      424 days ago

      To be fair here and without looking up numbers, such polls tend to often show the same pattern. Something like 45% A, 30% undecided, 25% B.

      So when “nearly half” disapprove it can still mean “a majority” does.

        • @Ooops@feddit.org
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          324 days ago

          Okay, then let me rephrase it: When “nearly half” disapprove it can (and probably does) mean that there is still no majority (or plurality) approving, which is what OP falsely concluded.