[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

IOW, you didn't even read the definition provided for you?

LOL! It is what it is.

"No," in other words. Gotcha.

Dismissed.

[cynwoody]

A proper example of an argumentum ad populum would be a Church official in the 1600s arguing that Galileo's heliocentric theory was wrong because most people (a populum, in other words, aka the sheeple) knew the Earth was the center of the universe.

What I did was cite some conservative endorsers as evidence Ted Cruz is conservative. That may or may not be a good argument. But it's absurd to call it an argumentum ad populum.