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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

CNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russia | CNN Politics

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Most Americans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, as the public splits over whether the US has already done enough to assist Ukraine.
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    Bullshit. Manufacturing consent.

    SSRS are a C+ pollster. I’d trust them about as far as I can throw them.

    A fucking mail survey on top of that. Talk about self-selection.

    The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS from July 1 through 31 among a random national sample of 1,279 adults initially reached by mail.

    The margin of error could also make actual support go either way.

    Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

    All in all, a completely useless poll.

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      The reality is that what majority of people in US want has absolutely no effect on what the government does as a study analyzing decades of US policy clearly showed:

      What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

      What makes these news stories relevant is that they’re an indicator of where the ruling class is planning to take things, and it’s pretty clear that the narrative is being shaped for US to pull out of the proxy war with Russia.

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      Absolutely awesome find. Thanks for the input. My stomach sank when I read that article this morning on CNN. Couldn’t believe we would give up our support so quickly

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