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SpokenTruth said:
Mnementh said:

I cite again fivethirtyeight.com:

"Jody: Well, that was the other part. Twenty-five percent of Clinton supporters said the same."

"Nate Silver: Beyond that, I think you get into false precision, though. A couple of years ago, my colleague Allison McCann and I looked at the general social survey which asks about racial attitudes in a lot of different ways, and of the white population, you can get anywhere from five percent to 50 percent, depending on how you ask the question about anti-black racism. And there’s a question about how they split between Clinton supporters and Trump supporters, but if someone submitted that in an article at FiveThirtyEight, we’d say “needs citation.”"

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/putting-hillarys-basket-of-deplorables-in-context/

And more detailed with data:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-of-trumps-supporters-really-are-deplorable/

So you're saying David Duke, the KKK, the Aryan Nation, et al...are to be ignored because of statistical wiggleroom?

Well, if you would read what I wrote, than Nate Silver and Jody Avirgan are writing that a) it is pretty unclear if 50% of Trumps voters (as suspected by Clinton) are racists, as the notion as racists is strongly depending on definition. As the answers to different questions differ it seems everyone has a bit racist in themself and how much differs from person to person. Secondly they point out that also Clintons voters contains a set of racists, but probably less than Trumps.

Single data points like David Duke are irrelevant to such statistical data. We talk about millions of people. If you let your decision be guided by David Duke though (if you make always the oppposite of him) you give him a lot of power over you, so if he would support Clinton, you would instantly drop her?



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