Poll: Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon

[BlueSwan]

What I want to know is, who are the 5% of Democratic voters who think Biden is a secret sex trafficker but are going to vote for him anyways?

Yeah, this just seems completely bonkers.

Anyway, this entire poll is DEEPLY scary. Anyone laughing this off is missing the point. Say hello to 2024 GOP nominee Alex Jones.

[Figueira]

The frustrating thing is that our society has a pedophilia problem, and this isn't the way to deal with it.

[Fudotei]

Media slaps a name on the concept - pizzagate, Epstein truthers, Qanon - and gets people divided on a question that most people are generally warm to, that major world leaders are involved in some kind of pedophile ring involving young boys and girls.

Hopefully it will be as the old Arab proverb goes - "a falling camel attracts many knives", and we can get some answers on this kind of stuff. Nothing new, has been going on since the 1980s. sh**t, Dutroux burned the Dutch public on this kind of thing and they couldn't make up a scapegoat to blame for trying to figure out what happened. Maybe the national conversation can move to that rather than whether this is finally the one terror threat we need to listen to the CIA on.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

"Do you believe that top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings?"   50% of Trump supporters say yes, 5% of Biden supporters say yes.   I wonder what the results would be if they said "top politicians" instead of "top Democrats."

Belief in QAnon as a whole is much smaller, just 15% of Trump supporters say "I believe it is true."  The QAnon conspiracy is not just belief in an individual element, but all of them together and the story that fits them together.

Answering yes to the second question--that Trump is actively working to dismantle the pedophile ring/rings--is pretty distinctively QAnon even if the overall belief that a lot of top politicians are pedos isn't.

If you at all support Trump, then you'd be inclined to answer yes to such a question if you believe such rings exist.  Apparently a few even said that Trump is breaking up these rings even though they had not answered yes to believing that these rings exist.

Which is to say that what people say they agree with in a poll question is very different from what they actively believe apart from a poll that brings up the subject.

[ProudModerate2]

i remember hillary calling half of trump supporters deplorable. here you have it

[7,052,770]

"Do you believe that top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings?"   50% of Trump supporters say yes, 5% of Biden supporters say yes.   I wonder what the results would be if they said "top politicians" instead of "top Democrats."

Belief in QAnon as a whole is much smaller, just 15% of Trump supporters say "I believe it is true."  The QAnon conspiracy is not just belief in an individual element, but all of them together and the story that fits them together.

Answering yes to the second question--that Trump is actively working to dismantle the pedophile ring/rings--is pretty distinctively QAnon even if the overall belief that a lot of top politicians are pedos isn't.

If you at all support Trump, then you'd be inclined to answer yes to such a question if you believe such rings exist.  Apparently a few even said that Trump is breaking up these rings even though they had not answered yes to believing that these rings exist.

Which is to say that what people say they agree with in a poll question is very different from what they actively believe apart from a poll that brings up the subject.

Believing that such rings exist is the meat of the story here, not the fact that they put the QAnon label on it.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

"Do you believe that top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings?"   50% of Trump supporters say yes, 5% of Biden supporters say yes.   I wonder what the results would be if they said "top politicians" instead of "top Democrats."

Belief in QAnon as a whole is much smaller, just 15% of Trump supporters say "I believe it is true."  The QAnon conspiracy is not just belief in an individual element, but all of them together and the story that fits them together.

Answering yes to the second question--that Trump is actively working to dismantle the pedophile ring/rings--is pretty distinctively QAnon even if the overall belief that a lot of top politicians are pedos isn't.

If you at all support Trump, then you'd be inclined to answer yes to such a question if you believe such rings exist.  Apparently a few even said that Trump is breaking up these rings even though they had not answered yes to believing that these rings exist.

Which is to say that what people say they agree with in a poll question is very different from what they actively believe apart from a poll that brings up the subject.

Believing that such rings exist is the meat of the story here, not the fact that they put the QAnon label on it.

The question is whether the result is representative of those to whom the idea was not suggested to them by someone doing a poll.

[Badger]

https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1318679776144420865

Do you think Trump supporters are concerned about these children stolen from their parents?

"(Shrug) Their parents shouldn't have brought them here illegally in the first place. Sounds like unfit parents to me. Play stupid games, Win stupid prizes. Such a shame those kids should have to pay for their parents breaking the law!"

(option 2) " s*** happens"

[Badger]

What I want to know is, who are the 5% of Democratic voters who think Biden is a secret sex trafficker but are going to vote for him anyways?

Yeah, this just seems completely bonkers.

Anyway, this entire poll is DEEPLY scary. Anyone laughing this off is missing the point. Say hello to 2024 GOP nominee Alex Jones.

In all seriousness, I suspect the 5% can be almost universally written off as either people trolling the interviewer or whom misheard / misunderstood the question.

I suppose there might be one or two among them who think that the clintons are/were indeed involved in pedophile sex trafficking, but think Joe Biden's a decent guy who isn't involved and hopefully will stop it.

[Santander]

What I want to know is, who are the 5% of Democratic voters who think Biden is a secret sex trafficker but are going to vote for him anyways?

Yeah, this just seems completely bonkers.

Anyway, this entire poll is DEEPLY scary. Anyone laughing this off is missing the point. Say hello to 2024 GOP nominee Alex Jones.

In all seriousness, I suspect the 5% can be almost universally written off as either people trolling the interviewer or whom misheard / misunderstood the question.

I suppose there might be one or two among them who think that the clintons are/were indeed involved in pedophile sex trafficking, but think Joe Biden's a decent guy who isn't involved and hopefully will stop it.

*raises hand*  (in a non-Nazi salute way)