Title pretty much says it all. The number of people, overall, Trump can count on for support are equal to or possibly even fewer than the number of people who think the moon landing was faked.
And lately, they may even outclass Trump supporters.
I have wondered how many Americans — really — are supporting/behind/looking forward to vote for Donald Trump. I see all the horrific things he says and one could be excused for thinking that the conduct of his supporters is getting more and more out of hand as he wears out the dog-whistle, but I didn’t know.
En route to looking for something else, I came across this: Nate Silver: Trump’s current supporters still outnumbered by people who think moon landing was faked.
In a column titled “Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump’s Polls,” Silver reminded political reporters and pundits that the number of people currently supporting Trump are still, percentage-wise, roughly equivalent to the number of Americans who believe that the Apollo moon landings were faked.
“Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked),” wrote Silver.
So despite his lines on graphs showing him soaring above all the other clowns in the car on the yacht he’s appealing to a small fraction of America and the mainstream media must leave millions of people thinking that all the sturm und drang Trump brings to the table is most likely not going to go anywhere at all.
Bottom line:
“So, could Trump win?” he asked. “We confront two stubborn facts: first, that nobody remotely like Trump has won a major-party nomination in the modern era. And second, as is always a problem in analysis of presidential campaigns, we don’t have all that many data points, so unprecedented events can occur with some regularity.”
Silver wouldn’t rate Trump’s chances of seizing the nomination at 0 percent, but he wouldn’t rate the businessman as high as 20 percent likely.
I don’t think he’s going anywhere except back to whatever his normal routine was.
I really liked the comparison to “moon landing deniers” to flesh out the cold hard stats of percentages and numbers.
It explains an awful lot.