Will R’s Become Election Truthers
What if President Obama wins re-election and Republicans don’t believe it? The question isn’t far-fetched. For
several weeks, we have seen Republicans challenge the veracity of a number of election-related facts, and the outcome of the presidential election may be no different. First, some Republicans claimed that public opinion polls were all skewed to show an Obama lead.
As
Slate
reported
, 71 percent of self-identified Republicans and 84 percent of Tea Partiers believe in the skew. Republicans confidently claim that the polls are oversampling Democrats,
not realizing
that these are self-reported party identifications, which rise and fall with candidates’ support/
Slate
.
More here.
Question: Are you prepared to accept the presidential election result if your candidate loses a close race?
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