The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July. All told, 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year and through last fall, even as there is no evidence of election fraud that would have altered the outcome of the contest.

  • BetoA
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    1411 months ago

    How many people do you think would be needed?

    It’s less than you imagine. As long as the sampling is random and unbiased, assuming 100 million Republicans, a sample size of 1000 should be enough for a 3% margin of error with a 95% confidence level.

    • @PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
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      No way man. The average citizen in this country isn’t registered with these types of polls. These are from the same group that write letters to news channels. I think the selection pool was already biased, and this represents an extremely small portion of the population.

      • @mayo@lemmy.world
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        511 months ago

        They sent them out randomly. The flaw with this poll is same flaw with any polling. Personally anything I receive in the mail that isn’t a bill or a birthday card doesn’t even get opened. It would be nice if they explained more about the sample they collected. Average age, location, gender, political party.