Nearly half of Republicans say they won’t accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would “take action to overturn” the results, according to data released Tuesday.

About a quarter of Democrats said they wouldn’t accept the results if their candidate loses, and fewer Democrats than Republicans said they would “take action to overturn” the results.

The nonpartisan World Justice Project, which keeps an index of how strong the rule of law is in more than 100 countries, gathered the data as part of a larger study. The poll was conducted through online interviews with 1,046 American households between June 10 and June 18.


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

  • tee9000@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    19 hours ago

    For sure for sure. This study was conducted on a thousand republican and democratic households and means fuck all.

    Not even worth considering. The only thing this study is good for is allowing someone to make an article with an outrageously misleading headline to bait polarized keyboard warriors to further waste their life.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago

      14% admit it.

      Closer to 40%, probably more.

      The south started the Civil War because they lost an election, they’re not that far different now.

      • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        23 hours ago

        I think the difference now a days compared to back then is rich and powerful people (plantation owners) wanted the war to maintain their wealth and power. Right now I don’t think really any powerful companies actually want a civil war. They’re happy to fan the flames and play both sides to get the attention off of them and the insane power and wealth they have but I think they all know a civil war would be bad for profits. So because of this I doubt it would ever fully become a civil war, closest it would be is violent protests or things like January 6th which would be put down by the states or federal government before it got far enough to become something like a civil war.

    • ozoned@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago

      No no no you misunderstand. They’re so American that we can’t understand how American it is to overthrow a democracy… wait … yeah no they’re just assholes.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    Oh if I lose my family will be blocking me lol

    Four years of bullshit with zero evidence, every day. Just for revenge.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    The military needs to put their heads on spikes outside the white house for assaulting America on a level that even osama bin laden could only have dreamt of.

    And, in fact, was trying to provoke. He didn’t give a rat’s ass about two buildings. He wanted this 14% of republicans to be doing stuff like this.

    When two cheneys go “well hold on a minute now”, maybe you rethink your shit.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      When two cheneys go “well hold on a minute now”, maybe you rethink your shit.

      • And one of the most vile shrieking twats in current politics is actually altering her stance.

      • The current figurehead claiming to want to put in Christian values yet is currently banging a 31 yr old piece of plastic while his 3rd wife is held up elsewhere in the country…the same 3rd wife he cheated on with a porn star…

      • When you scream the 2nd Amendment is there to keep tyrants and potential tyrants in check, yet has had 2 assassination attempts in as many months

      • When several of your talking heads have been revealed to be literally and genuinely funded by foreign governments most of the first world is at odds with

      • When you’ve claimed to have had irrefutable proof of widespread election fraud for 3 years against the Dems, yet your side is being convicted of legitimate election fraud for the same election.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    That’s actually much lower than I would have assumed.

    It’s still a big number, and 1046 interviews isn’t a great view of the American public, but hell, it’s at least an attempt.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 days ago

      Nah, saying you’ll do something to a pollster is different than actually doing anything.

      Stochastic Terrorism means that out of 1000 people, 100 of them hate an ethnic group, 10 of them hate so much it rises to the level of violent rhetoric, but only 1 actually does violence. The good news is that MAGA is becoming deflated because Trump still doesn’t know what to do about Harris when his entire plan was about Biden. They’ll still vote for him, but being energized enough to do violence in his name is a different matter.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 days ago

      If their candidate loses - not even if they think the election was manipulated. It’s likely underreported but that’s the chunk just itching for a fucking civil war.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    luckily we have seen for a long time that republicans say a lot of things but due few things. They are great at bamboozling people and then leaving them high and dry on consequences.

  • cum@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    You don’t get to choose to accept it or not, it’s not an opinion

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    Bring it the fuck on. The response on Jan 6 was restrained in part because the terrorists were acting on Presidential orders. Try that treasonous shit when your guy isn’t in the White House, and Biden has one foot in the retirement home.

  • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    “Action” = heading to the local Wendy’s and repeatedly using slurs while demanding free food and blaming the girl at the counter for their dog vanishing 15 years ago, followed by dumping an “American Girl” doll with a noose and on fire on the drive thru.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 days ago

    “Action” as a verb is about as vague as you can get. Does that mean an angry Facebook post, contacting representatives, staging an event, or violently overthrowing the government?

    I’m guessing it’ll mostly be Facebook posts with a handful of people actually gathering in real life doing something stupid.