Questions tagged [public-opinion]
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Do more Americans want the Bidens investigated than Trump impeached?
An October 7th segment of Fox News and Friends is available on YouTube
McCarthy: More people want to investigate Biden than impeach Trump
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says at 3m19s:
More people in America want to investigate what…
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Is there a Rasmussen poll according to which 30% of Democrats believe Trump won the 2020 election?
A page from "3 days ago" which has been retweeted or liked some tens of thousand of times:
An estimated 30 percent of Democrats believe that Donald Trump won the election.
That’s nearly 1/3 of all Democrats!
These results are taken from the latest…
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Do a significant proportion of the British public think "no-deal" Brexit means staying in the EU?
Brexit is the plan to take the UK out of the European Union. The way the law is currently framed means that this will happen automatically at the end of march 2019 if no transition deal is arranged. The latest deal negotiated by the government was…
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Do a majority of people believe the moon landings were faked?
A recent breakfast TV slot on the UK's ITV pitted a cosmologist against a believer that the Apollo moon landings were faked.
I don't think the cosmologist did a good job of showing what sorts of evidence we have today that this is nonsense (to be…
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Did 16% of French citizens support ISIS in 2014?
According to Newsweek1:
One in six French citizens sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, also known as Islamic State, a poll released this week found.
Is this true?
116% of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds. Visited…
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Were 59% of British people unable to name the then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015?
According to this article The British public still have no idea what they voted for with Brexit – it’s not elitist to admit it, it is claimed:
A survey carried out in the run up to the 2015 general election revealed that 69 per cent of Britons…
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Is lack of adequate funding a substantial factor determining the poor accuracy of US state-level polls?
One of the conclusions of an AAPOR paper on the 2016 US polls contains this detail:
As this report documents, the national polls in 2016 were quite accurate, while polls in key battleground states showed some large, problematic errors. It is a…
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Do we live in a post-truth era?
Apparently Oxford Dictionary's "word of the year" in 2016 was post-truth:
... relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are
less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and
personal belief.
Google is…
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