Trump Voters already having buyer’s remorse.
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BlooVooDoo
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More evidence that many voters are little more than spiteful juveniles throwing tantrums.
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I could be wrong, but color me a bit skeptical on this. Are we supposed to believe that the MAGA or MAGA-curious, I-only-get-my-news-from-social-media-or-Fox-News crowd, suddenly became self-reflective and/or contemplative? Before any actual Trump 2025 policies have been implemented or consequences have occurred? Since we seem to be in actual Bizarroworld, maybe those searches were submitted by Democratic voters 
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OTOH, the "how do tariffs work" search I totally believe. Hopefully they also searched for "should I read about the issues before I vote?"
(/s)OTOH, the "how do tariffs work" search I totally believe. Hopefully they also searched for "should I read about the issues before I vote?"
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How do you know that data is exclusively - or majority - Trump voters submitting those searches? Is that shown in the data? If not, can you understand why that seems to not quite line up with what we just saw six days ago?
Perhaps it's not me choosing to believe something that may not necessarily be true.
ETA: Your snark towards me is sorely misplaced. If you've read any of my posts in the entire time I've been here, I detest MAGA, Donald Trump, and the whole enchilada of whatever passes as (a) Republican these days.
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I wonder if there was a test to be able to vote, to ensure people read the candidates positions, what percentage of Americans would be allowed to vote.
ChapelHillSooner
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I don’t think that these are MAGA. These are probably low information voters who make a last second decision.I could be wrong, but color me a bit skeptical on this. Are we supposed to believe that the MAGA or MAGA-curious, I-only-get-my-news-from-social-media-or-Fox-News crowd, suddenly became self-reflective and/or contemplative? Before any actual Trump 2025 policies have been implemented or consequences have occurred? Since we seem to be in actual Bizarroworld, maybe those searches were submitted by Democratic voters
OTOH, the "how do tariffs work" search I totally believe. Hopefully they also searched for "should I read about the issues before I vote?"
dukeman92
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I’m not sure there is a way to determine who each searcher voted for. In fact I’m almost certain there isn’t. You have to make some inferences. For example, Why would a Kamala Harris voter search that? Also, when, during the same time frame, the phrase “how do tariffs work” is searched… those both spiked hard the night of the election and continued during the days following.
There was no snark intended. Really. Though I can see how you’d think so.
dukeman92
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I would bet if voters were presented platforms with no names or parties attached, elections would be quite a bit different and so would our lives.
ChapelHillSooner
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It doesn’t make sense for a Harris voter to do such a search.
You could argue that many are looking at other political races. You could get a good idea on that by looking to see if such a search is common every election cycle. If not, then it is almost certainly mostly people who voted for Trump and have had second thoughts. If it were smaller races, because of the number of races, this type of search would happen at about the same rate each cycle.
Edit: I see your comment below about bots artificially creating this phenomenon. That isn’t an angle I considered. I suppose that could be one explanation.
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DiehardHeelFan
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November 8, 2024
Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
From the above link.
Marcotte recalled that Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou of the Washington Post showed before the election that voters overwhelmingly preferred Harris’s policies to Trump’s if they didn’t know which candidate proposed them. An Ipsos/Reuters poll from October showed that voters who were misinformed about immigration, crime, and the economy tended to vote Republican, while those who knew the facts preferred Democrats. Many Americans turn for information to social media or to friends and family who traffic in conspiracy theories. As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters put it: “We have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.”
BillOfRights
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For many voters, the election isn't about candidates' positions. For many voters, it's about how they "feel". They "feel" the economy is bad, or they "feel" a candidate cares about people like them, or they "feel" like a candidate is a strong leader.
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"You, like MAGA, can choose to believe whatever you like" - is unambiguously snarky and there's no need to spin it otherwise. Let's just forget about it and move on. Also, I did tag my last sentence in that original post with "(/s)" for sarcasm.
As for "who," I was thinking more along the lines of bots padding/artificially skewing search results - which has definitely been done before. But I do concede that I'm not sure what a reason to do this would be. The graph in your OP seems legit, but I would just prefer some greater transparency into the data before putting a pin in it.
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Something something marketing, something something racism something something out of touch something something 2016 studies something something reread my post something something
DiehardHeelFan
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Think this is from the same poll Heather Cox Richardson cites. Well guess we’ll see how they like Trump’s policies
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And lets watch the mass deportation Facts versus the Hollywood production we will "see '