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YouGov/HuffPost Poll: One In Four Find Kavanaugh Allegation Credible
HotAir ^ | September 21, 2018 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 09/21/2018 11:03:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020

Perhaps this measures just how different life is outside of the political/media bubble. While senators and political observers have quickly settled into fixed positions on the question of allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, nearly half of the American public has yet to determine whether it has any credibility, according to a new YouGov/HuffPost poll. Only 26% of all respondents find Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation of sexual assault in 1982 credible, a number that goes up among registered voters — but so does the number who don’t find it credible:


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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: brettkavanaugh; kavanaugh; scotus; supremecourt
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1 posted on 09/21/2018 11:03:10 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

LOL - I think CNN has it as three of five.


2 posted on 09/21/2018 11:08:02 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Trump20162020

That must really pain HuffPost


3 posted on 09/21/2018 11:12:29 AM PDT by Conserv (rump)
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To: Trump20162020

What exactly is the difference between “can’t say” and “don’t know”?

Another dumb poll.

But, if only one in four think the accusations are credible, that means that 3 in 4 don’t.

That should be the headline.


4 posted on 09/21/2018 11:15:14 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Trump20162020
In libspeak that equals "most" Americans. Or, nearly half at least. 🍿🍻👹👍🏼🇺🇸
5 posted on 09/21/2018 11:17:21 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder how many surveyed remember Monty Python’s “Blackmail” game show sketch?


6 posted on 09/21/2018 11:25:05 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Trump20162020

A Jury of your Peers. Cough, cough..


7 posted on 09/21/2018 11:26:34 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Trump20162020

Six in ten cannot name one Supreme Court justice.


8 posted on 09/21/2018 11:29:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Trump20162020

Note tagline.


9 posted on 09/21/2018 11:29:38 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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To: Ingtar

Anyone who voted credible has given up their right to draw air.


10 posted on 09/21/2018 11:30:55 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Mouton

A lot of the “credible” are just liberals who think pretending to believe it helps their cause. I wonder how many genuinely believe this nonsense.


11 posted on 09/21/2018 11:33:44 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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RE:”YouGov/HuffPost Poll: One In Four Find Kavanaugh Allegation Credible”

Sounds terrible

Should Trump pull the nomination now?

Dems would vote for Garland if he was nominated again.

12 posted on 09/21/2018 11:34:56 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: Trump20162020

this poll just shows how many have a low IQ and will believe anything negative.


13 posted on 09/21/2018 11:35:53 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Trump20162020

Those who poll as “Haven’t heard enough to say.” Are unwilling to trash the Ford story based on the surrounding political “noise”.

Those who believe Ford based on the current stories in the news are simply bonkers. They really haven’t heard enough to say. This is simply because we are not sure what Ford’s story currently is.

Those of us who do not believe Ford are going by:
1) The suspicious way in which it was introduced extremely late in the hearings. This makes it look like it was simply a way to sabotage the vote.
2) The way the lawyers for Ford are using her testimony to delay the proceedings.
3) The myriad of people, who knew Kavanaugh during high school, who A. deny hearing anything about the incident and B. don’t believe Ford’s narrative based on Kavanaugh’s character
4) The other named actors at the alleged party all deny that even the party took place.
5) Even Ford cannot name a location or date for the party.
6) One (perhaps the only one) person who attempted to corroborate Ford’s story got caught up in the lie that it was “a buzz” around school. Someone pointed out to her that A. the party took place in the summer and B. Ford claims she told nobody. This person erased her corroborating social media entry and replaced it with an entry which states she has no first hand knowledge of the incident.
7) Ford says that she first recounted this story to a medical counselor nearly 30 years after the fact in 2012.

Ultimately, Dennis Praeger was correct when he stated that ~”even if the allegations were true, it should not disqualify Kavanaugh”. The allegations are about the actions of a high school boy when he was a minor.


14 posted on 09/21/2018 11:37:21 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Trump20162020

This is what’s called Anchoring Bias.


15 posted on 09/21/2018 11:42:49 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: Trump20162020

Gosh, that means 3 in 4 DON’T!!


16 posted on 09/21/2018 11:49:07 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Trump20162020

YouGov/HuffPost Poll: One In Four Find Kavanaugh Allegation Credible.

Like PT Barnum said...there’s an asshole born every minute.


17 posted on 09/21/2018 11:54:09 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Trump20162020

So the headline should read:
“Three in four find the allegations NOT credible”

This is how you prove media bias BTW. Take a headine like this, invert the mathematical results and check to see if it changes the underlying facts being reported. If not, you have just pinpointed media bias.


18 posted on 09/21/2018 11:55:34 AM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: Trump20162020

25% of any group of human beings are morons, including Ivy League graduates, Supreme Court Justices, and United States Senators. Some groups are much higher on the moron scale, Democrats come to mind.


19 posted on 09/21/2018 11:55:35 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: the_Watchman
Yes, a minor at a drunken party! Had he been charged at the time for being "delinquent," and convicted, the record would have been sealed 35 years ago!

The Left's gambit here is to play to a Feminist gallery, which hates men to a point where they will give this accusation credibility--even though it defies reason to do so--and continue to harass the Judge, even after he is confirmed. Ultimately, they seek a society so fragmented by hate that we become completely dysfunctional.

This really is a new low for a major Party.

Feminist War On Love & Reason

20 posted on 09/21/2018 11:57:33 AM PDT by Ohioan
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