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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
You and whell keep forgetting the part about how Putin is a war criminal and his crimes are supported by the Russian people.
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I don't believe this is the case, and neither should you. Getting reliable polling data out of Russia is very elusive. More info here:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-po...and-oppose-war
In all surveys, when answering a straightforward question, the majority of respondents support the war. Yet these responses should be treated with caution. The question “Can you freely talk about your attitude toward the actions of the country’s leadership, or are you afraid, feel uncomfortable?” when posed to the respondents of the Levada Center polls showed that among those who approve of Putin, 42 percent answered yes, while 7 percent chose the answer “afraid, feel uncomfortable.” At the same time, among those who do not approve of Putin, 18 percent said yes, while every third respondent (31 percent) chose the “I am afraid” option. In the Russian Field poll, among those who supported the “military operation,” one in six (16 percent) said they were afraid to participate in polls, while 43 percent of those who do not support the war were afraid to be polled.
It is clear that loyalists are more likely to agree to be surveyed than regime opponents. On the one hand, the data from the various independent polls are consistent and capture the dynamics of the respondents’ moods in similar ways. On the other hand, the distributions we see in the polls are highly likely to have a bias: loyal respondents are overrepresented and nonloyal respondents are underrepresented.
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Of course you also forget the part about the 46% of Americans who would vote to put a sociopath like Trump in the Oval Office again, because they think there might be something in it for them...so this is not surprising.
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I'm not sold on polling data when it's almost a year and a half from the 2024 election. The polling I've seen on Trump versus other Republican candidates has Trump in the lead, but in most polls I've seen Trump still loses head-to-head with Biden.
Also, most of those polls show that nearly half of likely voters believe the country is going in the wrong direction. A lot can and probably will happen between now and November 2024 to shift those polling results.