54% of Americans are about to find out that their insurance companies will no longer cover their Hopium prescriptions.
Overall, the survey found that 54% of the public are “comfortable and prepared to support” Trump as president. That’s down 2 points from when he took office in 2016. Some 41% are not comfortable, up 5 points from 2016.
The survey of 1,000 people nationwide was taken Dec. 5-8. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.
The survey found 60% say deploying the military to the border to stop illegal drugs and human trafficking should be a 2025 priority for the new administration, with an additional 13% saying it should still be done but later in the term. The proposal is only opposed outright by 24%, including 51% of Democrats, 12% of independents and 3% of Republicans.
Support for raising tariffs is also more lukewarm, with 27% backing it outright and 24% saying it can be done later in the term. It’s opposed by 42% of respondents.
I’m sorry, this article isn’t worth the bits it’s saved in. Trying to read the national opinion and using just 1,000 people is bad science. At best this represents the (very small) portion of the population who would waste their time responding to a junk survey.
That’s pretty standard size for a national opinion survey. How large do you think they’re supposed to be?
For good, reliable data, several orders of magnitude more than 1,000 and it would need to have the methodology and data published along with it.
Opinion polls in general are not reliable sources of information and the wrong approach anyway. Telling people that X% of their neighbors hold Y opinion is a well known and effective propaganda and marketing tool for influencing opinion and decision making.
It’s essentially institutional peer pressure.
Yeah, I’m not sure how anyone can see “1,000 people accurately represent 330+ million people” and say say, “yep, sounds about right, that does.”
I have never seen any sort of poll of Americans several orders of magnitude more than 1000. Can you give an example please?
América is officially a country of scum
That’s generally what happens when you win the popular vote.
54% of 1000 ppl. Majority of 300+ million. Yeah this seems totally legit and not bait.
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Yup. Buckle up buckaroos.
Got an email from HR this morning to make sure that any employees who were late had it noted on their time cards and any one who had to leave for doctors visits had the proper doctors note upon return.
It’s been years since we’ve been requiring any of this sort of stuff but suddenly we are going to start dicking the employees again and not just here.
My wife told me, she was told by a friend in HR that her company that they anre about to start rolling out some pretty draconian rules for employees (right out of the Project 2025 playbook).
Prepare to enter the Fuck Around and Find Out stage my friends.
Being late and needing doctors notes are draconian? Are there more serious things HR is saying they will be rolling out?
Doctors note is a bit extreme unless it’s a repeat issue. Being late for work and it being an issue is hardly “draconian”. Hard to take complaints seriously when this is what the sky is falling is supposed to look like. I’d save terms like that for overtime being removed, workplace protections being stripped, nlrb being overturned, not “I can’t just show up whenever”