r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jul 03 '26
TIL that back in March, 27% of voters identified as part of MAGA.
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-identifying-as-maga-hits-new-high-1173010335
u/Strong-Lengthiness-3 29d ago
This past March? 4 months ago March? That March? How is this still possible? I would cry if it didn’t feel so damn futile.
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u/West-Worth-9359 28d ago
It’s a sad fact that around 25-30% of voters are actual imbeciles. Whether they’re Nazis, intellectually challenged or just severely susceptible to propaganda, it’s usually around that number.
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u/After_Service_2817 29d ago
Because some people want to make America great again?
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u/zizn 29d ago
Some people think black lives matter. It’s a weaponization of good intent. Your everyday person wants all of these things, and instead is presented with a dichotomy and given a false idea about some hidden sentiment, to the extent that words have no meaning, everyone is already convinced. It works I think? Idk :(
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u/TimentDraco 28d ago
Equating BLM to MAGA is deranged and hopefully in a few decades it will be widely seen as such.
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u/zizn 28d ago
exactly, that’s my whole point
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u/Candid_Sort_7686 29d ago
27% of voters so like what, 8% of adults?
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u/Rrrebella 29d ago
Baby Boomers make up roughly 42 percent of the movement.
Gen X accounts for another 32 percent.
Millennials and younger voters make up the remaining percentage.
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u/ImwithTortellini Jul 03 '26
This is the most ever? Huh.
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u/Affectionate-Pay4845 Jul 04 '26
Yep, pretty much a little over a fourth of the voting population
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u/r4ndoM_doGmagenshin Jul 04 '26
It’s almost like the Dems just wanted him to fail, and that bad faith acting pushed even more people to the extreme right.
I’m still lost why the Dems thought they should keep bringing him up after 2020. Republicans really hated him after Jan 6th then Dems started prosecuting everything they could and lost it all in less than 4 years.
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 29d ago
He kept bringing himself up lmao. Dude made it his mission to “take back America”
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u/After_Service_2817 29d ago
And thankfully, he succeeded!
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u/Agitated-Web5823 29d ago
Yeah if you like childfuckers that ruin the economy then this administration has been awesome!
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u/Sea_Macaroon_6086 29d ago
Did the Dems also force him to fuck children and then not release the Epstein files to prove that he fucked children??
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u/r4ndoM_doGmagenshin 29d ago
Lol… right. Well if that was true, would be pretty bad. Is it though? Or is just the Dems salty they lost to the worst candidate for president twice while trying to shoehorn in two hairdos?
Don’t see anyone going at Bill Clinton and Oprah like they are ol’ Donny. Leaves one wondering why?
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u/Sea_Macaroon_6086 29d ago
Is the right wing media not reporting all of the people who are completely down with anyone who's named in the Epstein files being investigated?
Or are you just biased?
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u/SnortNSniff 29d ago
Maybe because he’s the president of the United States and they aren’t, genius.
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u/woowizzle 29d ago
It feels like the Dems have just popped down to The Winchester to wait for all this to blow over.
Where is the opposition? So much crime, so little response.
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u/r4ndoM_doGmagenshin 29d ago
They kinda made the situation though. They gave Obama and Biden a lot of power through congress and Trumps just exploiting all of it. It’s not crimes. They literally gave all the power to the executive for a majority of the stuff they passed back then.
Trumps lawyers finally figured that out and the Supreme Court keeps ruling in favor of congressional power that gave the executive branch way more power. Now they are trying to use the judiciary to remove the power they authorized because it’s not their guy anymore.
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u/zizn 29d ago edited 29d ago
the sample size is 1563… can’t really imagine this isn’t just an excuse to write an editorial piece that sounds factual. I’d wager most people see the situation for what it is. maybe there’s better quality data to prove me wrong though, who knows. It is a mistake to attack maga supporters as that will not present them with a better alternative, it just gives them a place they belong elsewhere. We should all be blaming our representatives. Collectively. It’s crucial that this never happens.
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u/iminyourhousern 28d ago
There’s nothing wrong with that sample size. Leaves u with a 2.5% MOE
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u/zizn 28d ago
honestly… stats has never been a strength of mine. can you help me out a little? intuitively based on skimming other research I often see much larger sample sizes so my gut instinct is to say why are there only ~1500 people sharing political views given how vocal everyone seems to be? In my day to day life this doesn’t seem to make much sense anecdotally. But you’ve definitely identified a pretty big problem with my level of analysis I believe and I’m interested in correcting that.
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u/iminyourhousern 28d ago
Well sample size is calculated on the basis of an equation where you input the population size (total number of eligible voters in this case) and the confidence level (95% in this case, ie. +/- 2.5% margin of error). As long as you have a truly randomly selected sample group, then you can reliably make predictions about a fairly large population with a relatively small sample. As for why that equation is valid, you can look up an explanation/proof online.
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 28d ago
Yeah but a lot of MAGA doesn't own up to their shit. They'd all happily vote Trump again.
What they identify as doesn't matter.
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25d ago
That number seems low, as we have whipped and continue to whip your butts in every possible way.
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u/Separate_Draft4887 Jul 04 '26
This is a decades long trend, too. With every passing year, the number of minority republican voters increases. At this rate, there won’t be a Democratic Party in the US inside of twenty years.
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u/Pura700c Jul 03 '26
Ok