politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
The results
I'm not really a fan of this poll
The wording is kind of wonky, a lot/some/not much/not at all leaves a lot to be desired for me.
"Some" is kind of ambiguous. I'd like to believe that most people would read it as it's intended from the context, but I'm certain that some idiots probably interpreted it as something like "he has respect for some women" and not as "he has some respect for women in general"
"Some" also just feels like it leaves too much open to interpretation as to "how much is some." Personally, in a lot of other contexts I'd tend to read "some" as pretty much synonymous "not much" and while in this poll those responses are right next to each other, they are still supposed to be distinct from each other. This should probably have been a "'On a scale of 1-4, how much do you think trump respects women?' With 0 being 'not at all' and 4 being 'a lot'" type question
There's also the matter of what is meant by "respect." Does he respect them as equals? Does he respect their rights? Their opinions? Does he respect them because they're able to bear children? Does he respect their physical beauty?
It's hard to get truly representative sample sizes of the voting population because it's such a large and diverse group, and 875 respondents doesn't really inspire a whole lot of confidence in me about this poll's accuracy when there's well over 100,000,000 registered voters, especially without any other demographic info about who responded.
Just my 2¢ on the matter anyway