Miranda Devine draws attention to a Rasmussen poll to be released today on the Russia hoax:
Astonishingly, 60% of Democratic voters still think “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election”, according to the poll of 1,014 Likely Voters conducted on July 6-7.
A whopping 69 percent of liberal voters still cling to the Russia collusion hoax, compared to 27 percent of conservatives, and 45 percent of moderates. Among all voters, more believe it unlikely (49 percent) than likely (42 percent).
Devine comments on the Democrat cohort of true believers, but the persistence of the lie among substantial percentages of the other cohorts is astonishing as well.
Devine adds:
On the recent CIA review that revealed that Obama administration officials, including then-CIA Director, John Brennan, “manipulated intelligence” about Russia to “get Trump,” Rasmussen found that 49 percent of voters agreed with the findings, while 35 percent did not.
This result appears to comport with the result above. However, it leaves substantial room for those who have no idea of what happened, who should be added to the 35 percent of true believers.
The poll also reports results on related issues, including whether “officials who were involved in the manipulation of intelligence to ‘get Trump’ should be criminally prosecuted.” The premise of the question is that the Russia collusion scandal was a hoax. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 57 percent were on board with the proposition.
Finally, Devine reports:
53 percent agreed that “What the intelligence community did to Donald Trump is a bigger scandal than Watergate,” while 38 percent disagreed and 9 percent were not sure.”
Is it too cynical to suspect that even if 53 percent got that one right, a substantial percentage of those respondents could not say what the Watergate scandal was?
Let’s call the whole thing off is the thought that spring to my mind, anyway.
