Approval/Disapproval Polls

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gtyellowjacket said:
Is there hard evidence for that? This is from a ten year old Washington Post article. The data scientist measured how often people use the n-word during google searches. WV is there along with much of the South and rural northeast but not so much in Idaho.
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Well, I assume a large factor is that there aren't any black people in Idaho, so day to day usage isn't as common. Same holds true of much of the Midwest. Since Idaho is the home to quite a few white nationalist enclaves, I'm thinking they aren't huge fans of minorities. They move there so they can get away from them.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Is there hard evidence for that? This is from a ten year old Washington Post article. The data scientist measured how often people use the n-word during google searches. WV is there along with much of the South and rural northeast but not so much in Idaho.
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Idaho has become a hotbed for white nationalism over the last decade. Spend a week in Coeur d'Alene and report back.
 
Gmonet said:
Well, I assume a large factor is that there aren't any black people in Idaho, so day to day usage isn't as common. Same holds true of much of the Midwest. Since Idaho is the home to quite a few white nationalist enclaves, I'm thinking they aren't huge fans of minorities. They move there so they can get away from them.
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Good theory but it doesn't seem to hold up. Blacks are a very small percentage of the population of West Virginia but it appears to have plenty of people making n- searches.
 
Appalachia, MS/AL, Sand Hills, Piney Woods in LA/TX where Mini Mike holds office, PA (some). Louisiana, Redneck Riviera.

Indiana has a long history - undervalued here. NW of Chicago is missing. More of east Texas is needed. Ozarks, southern Missouri.
 
Zoo_View said:
A LOT longer than the last decade.

Ruby Ridge was 33 years ago. Randy Weaver was a white supremacist.

Aryan Nations founder, Richard Butler, moved to Idaho in the early-mid ‘70’s.
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To be clear, Idaho has become MORE of a hotbed in the last decade.

Yes, it has always been bad. But there have been significant demographic changes in Idaho in the last decade. A LOT of racists from California have relocated there (and from other states, too).
 
If there was someway to combine the northeast with California and the Pacific Northwest and leave the rest to MAGA and the Pubs we would have a great country. VA, NC and even GA would be good, too, if you just got rid of the rural areas.
 
aGDevil2k said:
His 8 wars thing is hilarious.

What single war was stopped? Israel and Hamas are back at it.
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He really does live in a fantasy world of his own making, and he has all of his life. He's more than rich enough to surround himself with butt-kissers and boot-lickers who only tell him what he wants to hear, and who reinforce his image of himself as a misunderstood genius. That's what they were hired for. He's one of those people who doesn't want anyone around him telling him bad things or anything that he doesn't want to hear - or to put it another way, bringing him back to reality. I'm sure he is told constantly at cabinet meetings, WH staff meetings, and by everyone around him what a great peacemaker he is (he's not), how much other global leaders respect and admire him (they don't and in fact laugh at him), how great the economy is going in every respect thanks to his great leadership, how everything that goes wrong in the country is the fault of the Democrats and his many enemies and critics who are out to get him, and on and on. It's insane, yet here we are.
 
While his plummeting polling numbers are certainly welcome news, it is still infuriating to see them and know that none of this should be happening, because if all of those people now saying they don't approve of his presidency had either gotten off their butts and voted or just not voted for him last year then none of the shit we're all going through would be happening.

For example, Trumper farmers wouldn't be struggling to avoid bankruptcy if they hadn't voted for him and his stupid trade wars - and he said he was going to do this, they just refused to believe it. Recent polls show that Trump's approval rating among Latinos has imploded down to 35%, yet he got nearly half the Latino vote last year despite it being clear that if elected he would wage a massive effort to oppress and terrorize and deport them - including the ones who are here legally. Yet they blithely voted for him anyway. The self-own among huge blocs of voters in last year's election is truly epic, and was totally avoidable and unforgiveable. And so here we are, with three more years of this shitshow to try and survive.
 
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Mulberry Heel said:
For example, Trumper farmers wouldn't be struggling to avoid bankruptcy if they hadn't voted for him and his stupid trade wars - and he said he was going to do this, they just refused to believe it. Recent polls show that Trump's approval rating among Latinos has imploded down to 35%, yet he got nearly half the Latino vote last year despite it being clear that if elected he would wage a massive effort to oppress and terrorize and deport them - including the ones who are here legally. Yet they blithely voted for him anyway. The self-own among huge blocs of voters in last year's election is truly epic, and was totally avoidable and unforgiveable.
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have the day you voted for
 
altmin said:
have the day you voted for
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Or in this case have the presidential term you voted for. These folks are in it for at least three more years. Good luck trying to avoid ICE and Border Patrol or begging the government to bail you out and save your farm or give you something affordable to replace the ACA subsidies or Medicaid.
 
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