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The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter
Politico ^ | 1/18/16 | Matthew McWilliams

Posted on 01/18/2016 8:47:32 PM PST by Another Post-American

f I asked you what most defines Donald Trump supporters, what would you say? They’re white? They’re poor? They’re uneducated?

You’d be wrong.

In fact, I’ve found a single statistically significant variable predicts whether a voter supports Trump—and it’s not race, income or education levels: It’s authoritarianism.

That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations. And because of the prevalence of authoritarians in the American electorate, among Democrats as well as Republicans, it’s very possible that Trump’s fan base will continue to grow.

My finding is the result of a national poll I conducted in the last five days of December under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, sampling 1,800 registered voters across the country and the political spectrum. Running a standard statistical analysis, I found that education, income, gender, age, ideology and religiosity had no significant bearing on a Republican voter’s preferred candidate. Only two of the variables I looked at were statistically significant: authoritarianism, followed by fear of terrorism, though the former was far more significant than the latter.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533#ixzz3xf7hJoqW


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: New York
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To: P-Marlowe
WOW These Cruz crowds are scary big in NH today!


81 posted on 01/18/2016 9:46:10 PM PST by entropy12 (Rafael Cruz 100% eligible as natural born Canada citizen!! SCOTUS might clear his USA NBC status.)
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To: Marcella

One time I had chicken marcala. It sounded like Marcella.


82 posted on 01/18/2016 9:46:38 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: FerociousRabbit

Yep. Obama failed at socialism but he did it wrong and Trump can do it right because he’s a really smart guy...

There’s a long list of authoritarians who have said exactly the same thing. All ended in failure making millions of lives poorer or worse. Lives that can never be lived again.

Never mind the constitution and the rule of law... Its oh so last century...


83 posted on 01/18/2016 9:49:50 PM PST by DB
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To: Another Post-American

You do know that stupidity is genetic and learned, right?

My opinion is that low volume intelligence, is a learned disability.

Try reading books about- thinking.


84 posted on 01/18/2016 9:50:54 PM PST by RedHeeler
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Neville Chamberlain for President!


85 posted on 01/18/2016 9:55:52 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: Another Post-American

Calling all Freeper! Please suspend your disbelief just this once and believe every word published by an uber-lib website that is written by Matthew MacWilliams, founder of MacWilliams Sanders, a political communications firms, and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is writing his dissertation about authoritarianism.

It’s vital that we at FR uncritically accept the word of a kommie PhD STUDENT at kommie U Mass, Amherst as gospel. It’s especially important that we here find another way to slur and impugn Trump supporters. It’s simply not enough to cast us as stupid, ignorant, uneducated, blue collar, unpatriotic, racist yahoos. It’s also necessary to pretend that Trump is the next Hitler and that’s why we Trump supporters obviously support him (Trump not Hitler).


86 posted on 01/18/2016 9:57:31 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Another Post-American

Oh yeah Politico, the propaganda organ of the Left and the GOPe, says Trump brings out the inner Nazi in all those knuckle-dragging conservatives out there in hillbilly land.

Got it. Now stuff it.


87 posted on 01/18/2016 9:59:58 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: P-Marlowe
I would say that the principle trait of Trump supporters is: GULLIBILITY

And you would be correct.

88 posted on 01/18/2016 10:00:30 PM PST by South40 ("One of the reasons I like Ted Cruz so much, is that he's not controversial," ~Donald Trump)
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To: Another Post-American

Absolutely ludicrous.


89 posted on 01/18/2016 10:01:25 PM PST by sargon
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To: Another Post-American

I think lefties have a very carefully gerrymandered description of “authoritarianism,” that smoothly avoids including gun control, Common Core, and hate speech laws, but manages to include tax breaks and any interest in national security.


90 posted on 01/18/2016 10:01:33 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Welfare: It's a Safety Net, Not a Hammock.)
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To: Another Post-American

Only idiots want to follow a “leader”. I vote to hire MY representatives. My leader is the Constitution thus I lead only myself.


91 posted on 01/18/2016 10:07:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: catnipman

Excellent post, catnipman.

You are exactly correct. Each time Conservatives attack a fellow Republican right now, we are simply providing ammo for Hillary, Joe, or Bernie in the future.

I will be pleased with a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz victory.

92 posted on 01/18/2016 10:08:18 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Another Post-American

I had rather thought a severe cognitive deficiency was betrayed by the profligate and indiscriminate sprinkling of “LOL.”


93 posted on 01/18/2016 10:08:40 PM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Another Post-American

1 Samuel 10:19 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’


94 posted on 01/18/2016 10:10:45 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Another Post-American
Respect mah authoritarianism.


95 posted on 01/18/2016 10:10:51 PM PST by Vision Thing (T. Cruz values New York, where he yells, "Show me the money!")
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To: Another Post-American

Trump is of German ancestry. Enough said.


96 posted on 01/18/2016 10:11:10 PM PST by matthew fuller (Americans want to win, after seven years of a faggot muslim surrender monkey that hates America!)
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To: Another Post-American

Paid propaganda work conducted by author of this anti-Trump article:

http://macropartners.com/print-1/

http://macropartners.com/online/

http://macropartners.com/online/


97 posted on 01/18/2016 10:18:48 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Another Post-American

I think he’s wrong. I think people are fed up with lying politicians, who are in the “Greatest Game On Earth” for money and power.All of them are flip-flopping liars, who are not going to keep any campaign promises once they’re elected.
They never have, why would they start now?


98 posted on 01/18/2016 10:39:22 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Another Post-American

Picture me miming a finger down my throat.

Keep trying, lib media. SURELY you will find an insult that would change Trump supporters’ votes.


99 posted on 01/18/2016 10:40:46 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: gaijin

Now YOU are actually onto something.


100 posted on 01/18/2016 10:41:23 PM PST by Yaelle
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