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Reuters Poll: Black Male Support for Trump Doubles because Kanye

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Kanye West's total embrace of President Donald Trump may be starting to have real-world implications beyond Twitter.

According to the results of a Reuters weekly tracking poll released this week, support for the president among black men doubled from 11 percent, for the week ending April 22, to 22 percent, for the week ending April 29. The approval numbers are the highest Trump has enjoyed in the survey among black men all year.

The timing is noteworthy since the rapper began to go public with his pro-Trump views on April 21, first tweeting support for right-wing pundit Candace Own on April 21. Four days later, he proclaimed "love" for POTUS and his "dragon energy" — and posted a selfie in which he wore a MAGA hat.
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https://www.thewrap.com/black-male-support-trump-doubles-kanye-west/

yall what is going ON

this is so scary

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Lurkyseas

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As a black male myself, I am literally shaking my head at them. You're going to support someone who's racist against you & doesn't give a fuck about any of you?

Idiots.
 
Lump

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I wonder what would happen if Kanye kneeled for the anthem.
 
SolidSnakex

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The approval numbers are the highest Trump has enjoyed in the survey among black men all year.
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So, does that mean that there was a time in his presidency so far where his approval rating was as high or higher than it was is now with black men?
 
Shauni

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Sho_Nuff82 said:
Blip on the radar until the next police shooting.
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The fact that it's fickle enough to change like this is very frightening, though. I feel like we're basically on the path to his re-election at this point. If he can just siphen a relatively decent amount of black voters, it's over
 
JaseC64

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Lurkyseas said:
As a black male myself, I am literally shaking my head at them. You're going to support someone who's racist against you & doesn't give a fuck about any of you?

Idiots.
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Self hatred is a thing.

Just like there are Honduran-Americans who voted for Trump and now their compatriots are gonna get booted out of US or lose work permits and live in shadows.

I don't know man but folks like this need to be woke somehow. They are fighting among themselves for god knows what reasons.
 
Zan

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Oh ffs.

I thougt as a people we were better than this at this point.
 
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There will always be racoons desperate to be accepted by albino alligators. That said, the sample size of this survey isn't even remotely sizeable enough to draw conclusions. Did you get this topic from lipstick alley, niece?
 
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rude said:
There will always be racoons desperate to be accepted by albino alligators. That said, the sample size of this survey isn't even remotely sizeable enough to draw conclusions. Did you get this topic from lipstick alley, niece?
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are you a s t a t i s t i c i a n ?

but anyway, i feel like this is a good launching pad for a discussion on how cishet black men are most prone to break away from the black community and what we can do to prevent that from happening because we need them
 
JayC3

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While we shouldn't disregard it altogether, this could just be statistical noise. From the article:
While the burst in approval is an intriguing data point, the figures might also be a statistical anomaly. The sample sizes of black men surveyed for both weeks was well under 200 people.
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Depending on the sample, you can have a few outliers distorting the entire poll. Ideally you have a bunch of polls so you can look at the average.

This also reminds me of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/...-is-distorting-national-polling-averages.html
Our Trump-supporting friend in Illinois is a surprisingly big part of the reason. In some polls, he's weighted as much as 30 times more than the average respondent, and as much as 300 times more than the least-weighted respondent.

Alone, he has been enough to put Mr. Trump in double digits of support among black voters. He can improve Mr. Trump's margin by 1 point in the survey, even though he is one of around 3,000 panelists.
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Edit: I'd really want to see more polling before making any conclusions. The article makes it seem like there's a causation between the polling results and Kanye's endorsement, which seems kind of premature.
 

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Reuters' Polling thingy is cool Let's me go all the way back to the week ending with April 2 that shows that 35% of black men approved of Trump. WTF?
 
Violence Jack

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200 people? That's not a big enough sample size. They probably asked the same idiots who believe R Kelly did nothing wrong.
 
RastaMentality

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statistical noise or not, kanye definitely has significant sway with heterosexual black men. wouldn't be surprised to see this again.
 
Aphexian

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Fucking dumbass sheep man, why do people just go along with the politics of their favorite person rather than making their own informed decisions?
 
Box of Kittens

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Freaking out about a single poll is bad enough. Freaking out about a subsample of a single poll is just beyond absurd.
 
Burt

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As a general rule of life, a minimum of 33% of any sampled group will inevitably be complete fucking morons.

So this sucks, but hey, still way ahead of the curve.
 
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