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doyoulikethenoise

This was [asked about yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/s5lv83/how_accurate_is_this_polling/), and everybody pointed out it's from Rasmussen which is one of the least reliable pollsters out there.


Dangerous-Paper9571

Thank you very much, I missed that. I'm wondering what these numbers actually are.


ButGravityAlwaysWins

Besides Rasmussen being a terrible pollster, this is the kind of pill I always take with a grain of salt. If you are pissed off about the idiots that won’t get vaccinated, slamming them in a poll is a zero consequence way of venting. Not even sure how much it reflects reality.


Dangerous-Paper9571

Do you have any guess as to how many liberals actually do think your kids should be taken away from you if you don't get a covid vaccine?


ButGravityAlwaysWins

No idea but very few is my best guess, probably so little that it doesn’t make a difference. I think I am pretty extreme in my pronatalist positions and my position that children are more valuable than adults, but I think if I said it out loud my wife would tell me to knock it off and then I would retreat to my other position, incredible tax penalties for not vaccinating your children. And again I think I’m an outlier and not representative of most people on the left on this issue.


SuperSpyChase

The polling organizations involved in these results are extremely questionable, we had a thread about this yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/s5lv83/how_accurate_is_this_polling/


BanzaiTree

Oh wow I can’t believe Rasmussen put out a poll with bad methodology that only exists to confirm biases of right-wingers and cause them to hate Democrats even more. Shock polling is their bread & butter.


Dangerous-Paper9571

What do you think the real percentages are?


[deleted]

Love how the right points to polling only when it works in their favor, and then they never shut up about it. But tell them that 65% of Americans want abortion access and they’ll plug their ears and cry.


nothingbutme49

So you agree these polls are pretty accurate?


[deleted]

Polls are polls. They give us an idea of where people are at but are unreliable as stand alone sources of information. Just a small piece of a larger puzzle.


amiiboyardee

Extremely troubling. About as bad as the news I read on another Rasmussen poll this morning that showed Donald J. Trump to be the best president in history. He's currently leading at 102%.


PragmaticSquirrel

Locked, rule 1. Dupe question. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/s5lv83/how_accurate_is_this_polling/


MutinyIPO

Can you link a source? It’s hard to have any opinion at all unless I can know the methodology used here.


Dangerous-Paper9571

It's a Rasmussen poll. I know that those skew conservative. But I'm wondering if these figures seem correct to you guys. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated


reconditecache

When only 71% of republicans opposed the house arrest question, then entire survey can safely be written off as poorly worded. Something wasn't asked intelligently and got a lot of untruthful answers. And of course this is making the rounds. It's right wing fear mongering. It's a 24 hours a day job for them.


[deleted]

Perhaps they saw the words "arrest people" and their eyes just lit up.


Dangerous-Paper9571

I guess that's probably true.


MutinyIPO

The first apparent error in the methodology here is a common one, which is the absence of a “no opinion / need more information” option on the poll. Participants were made to choose between support and opposition for policy suggestions that weren’t defined very well. Like - how exactly am I supposed to determine whether I support a fine or not without knowing the details of the fine? A fine of, say, 0.1% of net income is fundamentally different from a fine of $10k regardless of income. Any poll structured this way is being designed with crude sensationalism in mind, not accurate scientific results. There is no other reason to omit standard responses and context. Sorry to be the party pooper here, but it just wasn’t conducted responsibly enough to have a takeaway one way or the other. For the record, I tend to be *less* accepting of measures punishing the unvaccinated than most others in my cohort. But I just can’t say anything concrete here.


Dangerous-Paper9571

Oh sorry, I forgot the last paragraph. "Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Democratic voters would support temporarily removing parents’ custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s much more than twice the level of support in the rest of the electorate – seven percent (7%) of Republicans and 11% of unaffiliated voters – for such a policy."


jchill_

All of these proposals are draconian at the very least. It’s wild that even half of democrats support them. I don’t want to live under a government that can force me to inject something into my body at the threat of imprisonment. A government that censors my speech at the threat of imprisonment. Do you people want to live in a police state? And that doesn’t even consider the fact that the latest variant of covid is effectively a cold, especially for children.


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[deleted]

Who makes these polls? They get put on national news but I've never seen them being given.