Posted on 09/03/2020 12:06:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Democrats are arranging their own loss.
You’ve heard of the silent majority. It’s a very real body of voters that goes to work, raises their children, lives their everyday lives, and keeps to themselves. They don’t really speak out much but when it comes time to vote they’re heard loud and clear.
Most of these people vote Republican, and in the last presidential election, they spoke very, very loudly.
Research has shown us that this silent majority may have its own little sub-group called the “shy voter.” According to The Hill, it’s unusually quiet. Members of this sub-group don’t share their opinion at any time anywhere, oftentimes out of fear that if they do, they’ll face a load of trouble from an intolerant and emotionally driven opposition.
According to The Hill, CloudResearch took a poll and found some very interesting things about this “shy voter.” Like the silent majority, it’s a huge group of people, and also like the silent majority, it’s primarily looking to vote for Trump in the coming election:
To test this theory, CloudResearch recently sampled American voters in search of what they term “shy voters.” Their results show that Trump supporters were “significantly more reluctant to share their opinions on phone surveys compared to Biden supporters.” Almost 12 percent of Republicans and nearly 11 percent of Independents, were also almost twice as likely to be reticent than Democrats (about 5 percent).
These seemingly small percentages could have major November implications. For illustration of roughly how big, look at 2016 exit polling.
In the last presidential election, 36 percent of voters were Democrats, while 33 percent were Republicans and 31 percent were Independents. Applying CloudResearch’s “shy voter” percentages to each group yields 9 percent of the electorate as not giving their true candidate preferences.
However, those roughly one in 11 reticent voters are not, as CloudResearch discovered, evenly distributed between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Instead, they run about 2-to-1 in Trump’s favor. On the net, they come out to around a 3 percent hidden “Trump bump.”
In other words, there are Trump voters that aren’t just saying they’re Trump voters, they may actually even be lying about who they voted for out of fear. The numbers that pump up the Democrats on exit polling may be off by a little, but the polling numbers on who is voting Republican is off by a lot.
As The Hill notes, a three percent bump may not sound like a lot but three percent is a huge deal in a race that is allegedly as tight as the one between Trump and Biden.
One thing to consider, however, is that the left in this election is far more rabid than the left in the last election. Today, we have cancel culture, Antifa, and Trump supporters literally being executed in the streets. The “shy voter” population may be shyer than ever, so that number may be even higher.
The Hill acknowledges this, stating that Trump supporters have been villainized by the left, making the left’s problem of acquiring voters that much harder:
Democrats could find themselves, again, failing to target the voters they need to shore up. This time it could be more than just blue states they miss, but blue constituencies. The key is that Biden’s campaign cannot know where hidden Trump supporters are.
To top it off, the hidden Trump supporter problem could grow for the left. The left’s violent outbursts are getting worse, or at least less ignorable. The left clearly seems intent in going in that direction or unable to stop it. As incidents get worse, more coverage, or both, they could drive even more Trump supporters underground.
The left is proving itself to be its own worst enemy just like it did in 2016. It pushes itself too fiercely on the American people like a jealous girl on a man who clearly doesn’t want her. Instead of taking the hint and toning it down, they up the chaos, the outrage, and the possessiveness. Just like in 2016, America will do what it can to avoid its crazy ex.
He’s become conservative in many ways but not all. To wit, debt. He also is not a Puritan.
One of the Democrats hilarious blunders in 2016 was that their voter registration drives registered many voters who voted for Trump.
Expect that to increase this year, as the “shy” Trump voter will seem very agreeable to the Democrats before declaring their independence on election day.
Strange how you see more and more ‘conservative’ news outlets, whether online or cable, adopting woke language. You make a valid point, instead of the idiot writing this calling it what it actually is, fear, they instead adopt the usage of ‘shy’.......
Careful. These freaks will follow you home. They can also take down your plate number, and communists in the DMV will give them your address. ANTIFA does this.
Sounds great, what’s it called and how do you get it?
Mark to read later
My work as a consultant depends on regularly getting hired by big banks. I have zero incentive to take a risk of them discriminating against me for my political views. So no bumper stickers, no signs and I refuse to discuss anything even remotely controversial at work.
Black man killed for being trump supporter
Black man shot at, attempted murder for being a trump supporter.
White man shot, killed in Portland for being a trump supporter.
12-year-old beaten by passing woman for having a Trump sign.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declares all republicans are “enemies of the state”.
Governor Cuomo says Trump (and I assume all trump supporters) need an army to be safe if they are in New York City.
They can’t steal a landslide.
I don’t even have to be shy. Everyone in the liberal city I live in just assumes I vote D and assumes I hate climate deniers, anti-choicers, Trump, guns, religion, etc., and they do this by spouting their ideas and “jokes” echoed throughout the mass media and assuming I agree. I do agree that the ideas they are echoing are out there - how can you get away from them - but they never even consider I might disagree.
I was hanging out with some people I was taking an improv class with, and I admitted I didn’t vote D. You’d think I just confessed to having a low IQ and being a serial killer. They couldn’t believe it because I was well spoken on their issues. And a wee bit funny. Maybe.
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