Just as as a reminder of how fucking stupid (and also Un-American) most Republican really are
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/10/in-a-new-poll-half-of-republicans-say-they-would-support-postponing-the-2020-election-if-trump-proposed-it/?utm_term=.f8d7be9892e2
From your article:
Nearly half of Republicans (47 percent) believe that Trump won the popular vote, which is similar to this finding.
I thought I remembered "this finding" when it came out last December. Thankfully your article provided a link to it.
The headline in "this finding", that they quote as backup to their "facts", is the following.
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote
When that headline was quoted originally, it didn't seem really plausible, so I decided to follow the link to the article and do research. It turns out the headline was complete horseshit. From their own article:
In a nationally representative online survey of 1,011 Americans conducted by Qualtrics between Dec. 6 and 12, we asked respondents, “In last month’s election, Donald Trump won the majority of votes in the electoral college. Who do you think won the most popular votes?”
Twenty-nine percent said Donald Trump won the popular vote. This is a slightly larger proportion than in a recent Pew survey in which 19 percent said Trump won the popular vote.
Respondents’ correct understanding of the popular vote depended a great deal on partisanship. A large fraction of Republicans — 52 percent — said Trump won the popular vote, compared with only 7 percent of Democrats and 24 percent of independents. Among Republicans without any college education, the share was even larger: 60 percent, compared with 37 percent of Republicans with a college degree.
29% of 1,011 people surveyed believed Trump won the popular vote. A bunch of morons, but not all republicans. It was a whopping 293 people. Of that 293 morons, 52% of them were Republican, some dem, some independent.
52% of 293 is 152. 152 Republicans out of the 1,011 surveyed, or 15% thought trump had won the popular vote. 141 people, or 14% of the 1,011 also thought he won, but they were a mix of Democrats and Independents.
But that didn't stop the headline from stating 52% of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote - an outright lie exposed by the data in their own article.
So, it's not a surprise the Post used outright deceit to show their bias, but they continue to reference it to make their points, and dumbos like you continue to quote them as some sort of legitimate source of news.