I present the fruits of the latest research:
Amused? Appalled? I’m resorting to ridicule, and if you consider yourself a Trump voter, then you need to consider this result from Public Policy Polling in May of 2016 – I doubt a renewal of the poll in question would have much changed in the results:
There continues to be a lot of misinformation about what has happened during Obama’s time in office. 43% of voters think the unemployment rate has increased while Obama has been President, to only 49% who correctly recognize that it has decreased. And 32% of voters think the stock market has gone down during the Obama administration, to only 52% who correctly recognize that it has gone up. In both cases Democrats and independents are correct in their understanding of how things have changed since Obama became President, but Republicans claim by a 64/27 spread that unemployment has increased and by a 57/27 spread that the stock market has gone down. “It’s a fact that unemployment has gone down and the stock market has gone up during the Obama administration,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “But GOP voters treat these things more as issues of opinion than issues of fact.”
So if you identify the above chart as Fake News, you may take it that I’ve aimed it at the biggest consumers of Fake News on the planet – the GOP base and the Trump voters who cannot accept the realities of life.
