This is a perfect example of just how stupid polling is, in the US. What the fuck kind of questions are these? There's so much room for personal interpretation, that it's almost pointless to compare the answers to each other...and yet, they do.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

This is a pew research poll, there are plenty of trash biased polling organizations in the US, pew research is not one of them.

How we did this

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how Americans feel about the Republican and Democratic parties. This analysis seeks to examine the public’s feelings about the behavior of party leaders, party issues and how well each of the major parties represent Americans. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,445 U.S. adults from Sept. 22 to 28, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.

Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, presidential vote (among voters) and other factors. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.

https://www.pewresearch.org/the-american-trends-panel/

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not saying the polling was biased. Only that the question they asked is vague to the point of absurdity. It's no better than asking people if they "approve of the direction the country is headed". That can literally mean anything to anyone. So, boiling it down to a "yes" or "no" answer, is ridiculous.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

The "Yes, Republicans" and "Yes, Democrats", are answers that do tell something, though. You can make much out of those two.

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