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brooklynite

(94,745 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 10:16 AM Jan 2017

This is what Trump voters said when asked to compare his inauguration crowd with Obamas

Washington Post:

On Sunday and Monday, we surveyed 1,388 American adults. We showed half of them a crowd picture from each inauguration (see below) and asked which was from Trump’s inauguration and which was from Obama’s.

If the past is any guide, we would expect that Trump supporters would be more likely to claim that the picture with the larger crowd was the one from Trump’s inauguration, as doing so would express and reinforce their support for him. Further, as some respondents had never seen these photos, uncertainty regarding the answer would likely lead them to choose the photograph that would be most in line with their partisan loyalties.

For the other half, we asked a very simple question with one clearly correct answer: “Which photo has more people?” Some of these people probably understood that the image on the left was from Trump’s inauguration and that the image on the right was from Obama’s, but admitting that there were more people in the image on the right would mean they were acknowledging that more people attended Obama’s inauguration.

Would some people be willing to make a clearly false statement when looking directly at photographic evidence — simply to support the Trump administration’s claims?

Yes.


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This is what Trump voters said when asked to compare his inauguration crowd with Obamas (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2017 OP
Their own lying eyes. NT The Polack MSgt Jan 2017 #1
So they've been bullying and harassing us since the election and don't show up to the inauguration? Initech Jan 2017 #2
This goes to the heart of the hardcore republican thinking: trc Jan 2017 #3

Initech

(100,104 posts)
2. So they've been bullying and harassing us since the election and don't show up to the inauguration?
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 10:28 AM
Jan 2017

Enjoy your liberal tears coffee mugs, kids. You've had your fun. Now time to let the adults back in charge.

trc

(823 posts)
3. This goes to the heart of the hardcore republican thinking:
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 10:32 AM
Jan 2017

they are not able to admit to being wrong even when wrong, so they deny, obfuscate and finally, when all else fails, stick their fingers in their ears and sing "lalalalala can't hear you".

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