54% of Americans are about to find out that their insurance companies will no longer cover their Hopium prescriptions.
Where is the survey data? The article link just points to more articles editorializing.
If they just asked 1000 people willing to answer a survey from an unknown caller that’s not exactly the heartbeat of a nation.
CNBC is a mouthpiece of the billionaires just like fortune
While it’s just a poll and should be met with healthy skepticism, this is also where we are at as a nation. If you’re horrified by the result of this poll, me too, but that’s an illustration of how much work needs to be done. Now is not the time to wallow or wring our hands or rend our clothes. Now is the time for action. Things won’t get better without your help.
Ok. How do people help?
We did this last time around, and absolutely nothing I did, no volunteering, going door to door, signing petitions, protesting, having “rational” conversations, etc., made a dent. Nothing.
So what do we do here when they are fully and openly fascist and have all 3 branches of the government fully under their control?
54% of 1000 ppl. Majority of 300+ million. Yeah this seems totally legit and not bait.
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It’s helpful to remember that news reporting on anything involving numbers is usually relying heavily on hyperbolic horse shit.
Here is the “source data” (LOL) for this: https://pos.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FI14730D-CNBC-AAES-Q4.pdf
There are some key points that really matter here:
- What method was used to select the “1002 adults nationwide”? This is not described. Was it people with landlines that skew heavily older and conservative? Was it an even mix of blue and red states? IOW, was it even really random? I could not find this information anywhere.
- This polling was conducted by an outfit named “Public Opinion Strategies” (appropriately, POS). Since we apparently can’t know what sampling method was used (please! correct me if I’m wrong), we can maybe derive something from the either the organization doing the polling or the data itself. 2a: The data shows a slight shift to identifying as Republican (42/39). Anecdotally we can maybe surmise that people who say they are “strictly independent” may lean right-wing. Other demographic info suggests a slight bias toward older and less educated. 2b: In 2024 POS has been heavily used by Republicans. You can find this data on Open Secrets. Basically every single entity that gave them money that I looked up is Republican.
So, tl;dr until any poll can tell me their methodology and confirm that their sampling is truly random I’m just going to laugh at the “conclusions” made by the media.
Where did they hide that link? It’s not in the article or the link the article points to when referencing the survey. Not surprising they want to hide it considering how speculative they are in their extrapolations.
