Poll: 47% of Republican voters want party to focus on changing voter rules

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSNewsPoll/status/1393938110426275840
So we are a two party country and one of it now openly hates democracy. Cool

[PragmaticPopulist]

Someone should ask Nate Silver if this is a good use or bad use of polling.

[vitoNova]

"Fear of a Black Planet"

- Public Enemy

[Frodo]

With the country so closely split and polarized, I can see the rationale being that since it is next to impossible for the Republican Party to appeal to the other party's voters, it makes more sense to tweak/rig the voting rules to give themselves the leg-up in the upcoming election.  Every little bit counts.   

Though I imagine they would have taken a very different lesson had 2020 been a clear and unambiguous 1980-style Democratic victory up and down the ballot like we had been led to believe...  

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Someone should ask Nate Silver if this is a good use or bad use of polling.

Good use of polling, because it is in context of explaining shifts in how Republicans think.

[Inmate Trump]

They are an anti-American party.

Traitors, all of them.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Considering that Leader Trump spent many months claiming that he lost the election due to rigging/cheating and many Republican politicians amplified his claims or tacitly endorsed them, these poll results stand as evidence that many Republicans who claim to believe that Biden isn't a legitimate President actually believe that he is one. If you agreed with the idea that the election was stolen, it would be rational to focus on changing the rules to prevent rigging, except a majority of Republicans say they want to focus on persuading people to vote for Republicans, which is tantamount to saying that you believe elections are free and fair in this country.

This is all to say that the American crisis of democracy is far less acute than it is made out to be in the media and that Trump's actual standing with the Republican base is somewhat weaker than it is made out to be. He's guaranteed to be the nominee again if he decides that he wants it but he'd still face significant opposition and plenty of Republicans would support anyone but him in 2024. This would be unthinkable in October 2020.

[Joe Republic]

The goons who set the agenda for the right (e.g. Murdoch, Newsmax, Putin, etc), that is, not the legions of Facebook grandparents who disseminate that agenda and then vote in polls like this, are very well aware that their party and ideology are staring into a demographic abyss.  Rather than try to appeal to a new generation of younger voters and minorities, they’ve decided it would be simpler to just not let them vote at all.  It’s a short term strategy, but much like their approach to climate change, it doesn’t really matter what future they pass down as long as they have money and power now.