Rigged for Hillary wrote:
agip wrote:
yeah, people are real shy about saying they are trumpers. Real shy.
it's the other way really - imagine being a female person in a red county, one who doesn't want to vote for a criminal traitorous sexual assaulter. She can't say a word to anyone about it, at the risk of being called a traitor to her race or whatnot. She stays very quiet. Until she goes into the voting booth.
People who advertise that they are Trump voters (t-shirts, M-AGA hats,l awn signs, etc.) get harassed in restaurants, get swarmed by triggered liberals or get beat up or murdered by Antifa/BLM, If the supporter is black, they get called Uncle Toms, traitors, etc. Nobody wearing a Biden hat has to ever fear getting confronted in public.
There is an interesting discussion of polling here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/05/key-things-to-know-about-election-polling-in-the-united-states/They acknowledge problems with polling and the say the margin of error may be double what is reported. But they dispute the existence of a big shy Trump effect:
"Evidence for “shy Trump” voters who don’t tell pollsters their true intentions is much thinner than some people think. Do people sometimes lie to pollsters? Sure. But the notion that Trump supporters were unwilling to express their support to pollsters was overblown, given the scant evidence to support it. A committee of polling experts evaluated five different tests of the “shy Trump” theory and turned up little to no evidence for each one. Later, a researcher from Yale and Pew Research Center conducted separate tests that also found little to no evidence in support of the claim. The “shy Trump” theory might account for a small amount of the error in 2016 polls, but it was not among the main reasons."
I realise some people may be embarassed to say they vote Trump in certain company, but people scared of violence seems far fetched.