• beef_curds [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Weird to me that Pence is at 5%. I figured he was a 10th of that.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Polling only works correctly if people are honest. I think a lot of republicans are (very) uncomfortable saying they support Trump so they lie to pollsters and pick somebody else from the GOP clown car. In that poll Ramaswamy is at 7.2%. I simply can't believe that's accurate. If he breaches 10% maybe Trump will say "Ramas-whaty? He's not... you know... like us." Trump touches the white skin of his cheek. "He's not even Christian. He's an Indian religion from India," and Ramaswamy's numbers will fall by about half in a couple weeks.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Particularly with Pence, I imagine he's mostly getting evangelicals who will inevitably vote for Trump.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              Yeah but right-wing business owners don't want to get bogged down in annoying Jesus stuff like his love command. They're too busy hating minority groups of all kinds, discriminating against them, and then saying "As a Christian I can't do business with [insert minority group name here]. It goes against my religious beliefs." The GOP justices on the Supreme Court are far more important to them than Jesus.

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                I'm just surprised that 30% of evangelicals are committing extremely old school the church will lynch you heresies.

                • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
                  hexagon
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                  1 year ago

                  Everything old is eventually new again. For example - 100 years from now their spawn could be lynching people - Christians and non-Christians - for not accepting Jesus as god.

                  • Egon
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                    3 months ago

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                • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  Tbf, traditionally, the church wasn't going around doing polls or quizzes about what the congregation believed. For most of history, church services were conducted in Latin to illiterate audiences, while the theological debates they were executing people over were often about highly nuanced and esoteric topics. For the average lay person, it wasn't expected that they understand everything, so long as they were willing to defer to whatever the church told them if they said something wrong. Some would say that this shows the church has always cared more about obedience and authority than teaching about the faith (I'm Some stuff)

                  That said, "Jesus is God" is like, it's basically right there in the name "Christianity."

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Considering that polls skew older I could see that semi-accurately representing the never-Trumpers.