Posted on 05/26/2020 6:10:47 PM PDT by bitt
Republicans and men are far more likely than Democrats or women to believe Obama improperly spied on Trump.
Americans are fairly evenly split along partisan lines when it comes to the question of whether senior Obama administration officials illegally spied on President Trump's campaign and transition, a new poll showed Monday.
Results from the latest Just the News poll with Scott Rasmussen show 45 precent of Americans believe it was very or somewhat likely that the prior administration improperly spied on Trump, compared to 43 percent who did not. Thirteen-percent said they were unsure.
With recent revelations that 39 separate Obama administration officials in their final days in office sought to unmask intercepted conversations of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, the question about the propriety of that monitoring was acutely split along lines of political party, gender and age.
Just the News Daily Poll With Scott Rasmussen
A whopping 80% of Republicans believed it was very or somewhat likely that illegal spying occurred, compared to just 19% of Democrats. Independents were evenly split.
On gender, men were more likely to believe illegal spying was likely at 52% compared to 39% of women.
Age also played a factor. People over 45 were more likely to believe some form of illegal spying occurred, compared to those under that age, the poll showed.
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VERY FEW UNDER 45 are paying attention...
There is ALWAYS a certain percentage of the population who, even with 100% proof of wrongdoing, will say that it didn’t happen at all.
Bill Clinton was not a serial sexual predator. Biden did not sexually assault anyone. Obama was not born in Kenya.
Did Obama illegally spy on Trump?
That is a very good number for Conservatives.
Unsure people are likely to be convinced by the evidence, as they have not been convinced by the onslaught of media propaganda already.
Skeptics work for conservatives.
People that think for themselves vs sheeple that believe every pos that floats by.
Dim Dems w Baginas, or wish they had one, vs folks that go througb life with juevos or those that appreciate them.
Its always the same.
CWII is coming. Pick a side.
If the %13 unsure was positioned in the middle of the graph, it would show the sure majority believe Obama illegally spied on Trump.
What about “Indubitably?”
The Kenyanesian Usurper was illegally spying on EVERYONE!
Republicans and men are far more likely than Democrats or women to believe...what else?
Rule Of Law is not a public poll.
I agree that the “unsure” percentage makes more sense in association with “somewhat likely” and "not very likely” than it possibly can in association with “not at all likely.”I will go further and say that putting “unsure” in the poll as an option at all is illegitimate for the simple reason that all the other options are couched as various degrees of “likely.” None of the options are certainties; what is “unsure” in that context???
But the real point is that either "Senior Officials of the Obama Administration Illegally Spied on the Trump Campaign” - or else they didn’t. Obviously I trust sources which persuade me that they did. But since I wasn’t there, I have to allow at least the slightest smidgen of doubt. Cognito Egro Sum, and all that.
But we do have a whole branch of government whose mission is the ascertaining of “official facts.” When a suspect is arrested and broadcasters discuss that fact, they do not refer to suspect as “the perpetrator” until and unless the suspect is convicted in court. The conviction makes the “suspect” officially "the perpetrator.”
The point, heavily suppressed by the unanimous - but wrong and evil - New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision by the Warren Court, is that publicizing factual inaccuracies is illegal. You go after someone’s reputation by publishing falsehoods, you owe that person damages. As soon as that person proves his case in court after suing for libel.
A poll such as this does not change the truth or falsity of the “Did Senior Officials of the Obama Administration Illegally Spy on the Trump Campaign?” question. All it could constitute is proof of the extent of the tort of libel if Trump sued “the media” for libel and proved that " Senior Officials of the Obama Administration” did indeed "Illegally Spy on the Trump Campaign."
Agreed. And your final point would be ideal.
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