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Poll: 20 Percent of Trump Supporters Disapprove of Emancipation Proclamation

I'd bet that 20% of Trump supporters don't know what the Emancipation Proclamation is.
 
TobyOne said:
I'd bet that 20% of Trump supporters don't know what the Emancipation Proclamation is.
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That makes me feel a lot better...not racist, just stupid. Dodged a bullet there, huh?
 
its prob goof off answers.

i hear that polls say a lot of folks think MLK was the first black man on the moon.
 
TobyOne said:
Wow, thats sort of biblical. Denied three times.
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If this doesn't cost him, nothing else will. To suggest that he doesn't know (of) David Duke would mean that he lives in a cave. Even after mentioning the KKK, one would think he would immediately distance himself. Wow.
 
I don't think it will cost him. I also don't think its that big of a deal. I am anti-trump but this is much ado about nothing.

Top Cat said:
If this doesn't cost him, nothing else will. To suggest that he doesn't know (of) David Duke would mean that he lives in a cave. Even after mentioning the KKK, one would think he would immediately distance himself. Wow.
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TobyOne said:
I don't think it will cost him. I also don't think its that big of a deal. I am anti-trump but this is much ado about nothing.
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Considering it plays to a large segment of his fans, you are sadly correct.
 
TobyOne said:
I'd bet that 20% of Trump supporters don't know what the Emancipation Proclamation is.
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Make that 20% of Americans and you might be right. Man on the street interviews have been revealing a disturbing lack of basic knowledge forever now. Part of that is that people no longer store info onboard. But they know how to google it.
 
Public schools suck. I blame teachers unions.


clownboy said:
Make that 20% of Americans and you might be right. Man on the street interviews have been revealing a disturbing lack of basic knowledge forever now. Part of that is that people no longer store info onboard. But they know how to google it.
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Top Cat said:
The apples don't fall far from the Donald.

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Trump is a racist demagogue. The reason he gets so much support from the Far Right is that they're racists, too. Hell, half of them are probably just waiting for the time when they can put on their white sheets and burn a cross or two.
 
TobyOne said:
I don't think it will cost him. I also don't think its that big of a deal. I am anti-trump but this is much ado about nothing.
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Claiming not to know anything about the KKK is 'nothing'? Really. This is a clown who wants to be President of the United States and apparently he's never taken a US history class or read any books on Civil Rights. Hell, just go and watch 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Donnie.
 
Wiggen said:
Claiming not to know anything about the KKK is 'nothing'? Really. This is a clown who wants to be President of the United States and apparently he's never taken a US history class or read any books on Civil Rights. Hell, just go and watch 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Donnie.
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It's a weird opinion to have. I'm guessing if a candidate claimed they didn't know about Nazi Germany or its penchant for killing jews, everything would also be hunky-dory with some of these posters.
 
True. And 20 percent of Hillary supporters wish this was a Communist country.
 
I don't like Donald Trump, I don't support Donald Trump, and without doubt there are racist elements of Donald Trumps supporters.

But this little news item that has been circulating around thanks to propagandists is just frustrating as all hell. Why? Because when there is so much to legitimately attack Donald Trump and/or his supporters for, it gets diluted when people push things in a dishonest fashion for the sake of attacking.

Wrong is wrong, dishonest is dishonest, and screw this Machiavellian notion so many have jumped on board for because Donald Trump is an asshole.

This was a clear and obvious push poll, mean to manipulate the poll taker in order to get a desired response. The headlines continually going around do a wonderful job of highlighting part of this unknowingly. Notice that the headlines all use the commonly known term of the "Emancipation Proclamation" and not "Executive Order that freed all the slaves". While this may seem like a simple technicality to many of us on here, the reality is that to the average person...the type you see on "man on the street" interviews that sometimes don't even know the name of the Vice President...the connection between the two may not be made. The understanding that "The executive order which freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government" is the same thing as the "Emancipation Proclamation". Furthermore, in evidence of this being a push poll, was the two questions leading up to it. Beginning first with do you agree with Obama's executive orders, and then asking if you think executive orders are constitutional, thus creating a framework in the questioning where the person, upon reaching the question about specific executive orders, is potentially in a mindset of trying to be "consistent" and disagreeing with "executive orders", not truly comprehending what the ones listed actually were.

In the same poll that is saying that 17% of likely Republican primary voters disapprove of the executive order, 15% of Hispanics do as well with another 25% unsure. Of African Americans, 19% either disagree are unsure about their approval of said executive order.

The headlines are a dishonest representation of a question, that itself was asked in a manipulative fashion that predisposed respondents to be in a negative mindset with relation to the question. That this is being trumpeted (no pun intended) as some kind of proof of racism within the Trump or Republican camps is ridiculous; no more than it speaks to racism within the Hispanic community. It'd be one thing if this actually asked their thoughts on the emancipation proclamation, in the same plain language that these headlines are doing, but it doesn't. It'd be one thing if they weren't preconditioning those who are currently upset about Executive Orders to be in a mindset of negativity towards executive orders in general, but it was. Undoubtedly, some of the responders in question did so with an understanding of what was being asked and for racist reasons; I'm not excusing that as a possibility. However, acting as if the 20% (which isn't even 20%, it's 17%, and they keep lazily rounding it up because it sounds better as a clickbait headline) is an accurate representation of the "racists" within Trumps movement based off this is dishonest.
 
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