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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by physicles on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:13PM (#25693048)
This isn’t about closeness at all. It’s about ~half the country actually believing that the election was rigged. That doesn’t have precedent as far as I know.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by throwaway2245 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:03PM (#25694039)
> It’s about ~half the country actually believing that the election was rigged.

I think it's more accurate to say that a percentage of people believe they will benefit by repeating claims that the election was rigged.

It's difficult to truly believe that an election was rigged, by the other side, when your side was ultimately responsible for its administration.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by sixothree on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:18PM (#25693129)
That's too bad. They're wrong. And using violence is not the answer.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Rapzid on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:28PM (#25694643)
Half the country doesn't believe that. Source?
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by physicles on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:10AM (#25699414)
My bad, should’ve done the research.

In a mid December CBS news poll, “82% of Trump voters say they do not consider Mr. Biden[‘s win] legitimate.” The vast majority of trump voters isn’t the same thing as half the country.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-most-feel-electio...

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Rapzid on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:38PM (#25705062)
I think it's telling though that the one question that's very narrowly scoped in interpretation(in that first batch about who won etc), the question about what should happen if the electoral college votes for Joe Biden, has 51% of Trump voters saying that Trump should concede.

Seems like most voters were still holding out while there was some hope of a viable legal route to contest the election. But a majority of Trump voters, at the time of the poll anyway, made a clean break from contesting the election after the electoral college vote.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:29PM (#25693332)
To be fair, the other half of the country believed that the previous election was thrown by Russian interference.

And to be really fair, half of the country believed neither of those things. There are plenty of people who voted for Trump who believe that he lost fair and square, and ditto Hillary voters in the previous election.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by mkr-hn on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:57PM (#25693851)
It's been interesting to watch Trump signs vanish a few at a time with each post-election milestone. Most people seem to accept the results even if their lines are different.