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The lie that lingers: 3 in 10 Americans falsely believe the election was riddled with fraud (only because it was)
Washington Post (democracy dies with democrats) ^ | 1/19/20 | Philip Bump

Posted on 01/20/2021 4:20:33 PM PST by Libloather

There are millions of Americans who will refuse to believe this sentence: There is no credible evidence of any significant fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Different people will take issue with different words. Some will reject the idea that the evidence that’s been presented by President Trump and his allies in conservative media and on Capitol Hill isn’t credible. But it isn’t; amateur affidavits aren’t credible evidence any more than tortured numerical analysis is. Others will debate the word “substantive,” willfully claiming that the existence of any fraud - which exists at a small scale, as it generally does - somehow suggests a level of fraud that calls into question President-elect Joe Biden’s victory margins of more than 10,000 votes in several states.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the reality of Biden’s win will have different motivations for doing so. Some will dismiss my arguments as illegitimate simply because they come from the hated mainstream media. For a large part of the population, Trump’s obvious bias somehow lends him more credibility than The Washington Post’s imputed bias. Others will reject my arguments because Trump’s allies have generated a mountain of nonsense meant to serve as a counterweight to reality, as though a million drawings of unicorns combined with a fervent desire to believe that unicorns exist can offset the complete lack of demonstrated evidence of the creatures. One of the marvels of the Trump era, in fact, is how often “desire to believe” has replaced “reason to believe” as a motivator for a belief system.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; criminalconspiracy; democratscandals; election; failedenglishmajor; fraud; gaslightmedia; philipbump; stolen; stopthesteal; thedailygaslight; therearefourlights; trump; wapo
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Had to listen to the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax for four long years. Now, the 'democracy dies in darkness' bunch fails to investigate election fraud, which is their job. How about starting off with Ruby Freeman. Who gave her those felonious marching orders?
1 posted on 01/20/2021 4:20:33 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

If WP says 3 in 10 it is really probably 4 or 5 out of 10.

So they can phoney up some fake evidence and talk about it for years and have top officials lie saying it is legit, which they deny in Congressional testimony, and riot for years but if we have mountains of evidence that they stole the election we say anything, we are guilty of incitement?


2 posted on 01/20/2021 4:22:32 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: Libloather

Gonna linger forever, bitches.


3 posted on 01/20/2021 4:23:01 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents{}Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

And the Gaslighting continues


4 posted on 01/20/2021 4:24:05 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Libloather

See, they even lie about people’s reaction to their previous lies. I bet it’s more like 50-60% are aware of the steal.


5 posted on 01/20/2021 4:24:11 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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The lie that lingers: That only 3 in 10 Americans believe the election was riddled with fraud

Fixed it ;'}

6 posted on 01/20/2021 4:24:31 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Libloather

More than 30% understand the fraud.


7 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

the Compost as usual, has it turned around.....its really only 3/10 DON’T believe this election wasn’t fraudulent.


8 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:22 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Libloather

This is so obviously an attempt to cover up.

What about the clearly illegal voting in Wisconsin?

Even the Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed about 210,000 votes from mostly Democrat counties (Dane and Milwaukee) were illegal.

It was just that one so called “conservative” judge of the four on the court (three leftists) joined with the leftists and said they could not throw out the illegal votes because...racism!


9 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:45 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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The Washington Post is owned by Amazon’s CEO, which took away the server for Parler. Why are their articles posted here?


10 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:47 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Libloather

Half or more of Americans KNOW that the election was stolen. Biden* is an illegitimate president and should be treated as such.


11 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:53 PM PST by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: Libloather

How heavy did they oversample Dems in their fake poll?


12 posted on 01/20/2021 4:25:54 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Libloather

That’s nothing compared to the Russia collusion hoax.


13 posted on 01/20/2021 4:27:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Libloather
They are doing their jobs. This is what leftist whacko activists do!

Don't make the mistake of thinking they're actual journalists.

14 posted on 01/20/2021 4:27:56 PM PST by NWFree
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To: Libloather

Philip Bump, longtime propagandist.

Wonder if he is a journOlista?


15 posted on 01/20/2021 4:28:01 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: TakebackGOP

Probably because it’s wise to know what your enemy is saying.


16 posted on 01/20/2021 4:28:02 PM PST by 230FMJ (...from my cold,them to be. dead, fingers.)
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To: Libloather

A far greater percentage of Democrats erroneously believe that the Russians manipulated vote counts in the 2016 election.

FUWP


17 posted on 01/20/2021 4:29:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Libloather

100% of leftists still believe that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.


18 posted on 01/20/2021 4:29:07 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Libloather
As if the thief was going to confess to the crime.

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19 posted on 01/20/2021 4:29:25 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Libloather

I actually think the next battle of election fraud is the Newsom recall.

Most of CA is Dominion, get a big recall vote and make them blatantly do it again.


20 posted on 01/20/2021 4:29:55 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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