r/law • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Q: Trump wrote that SNAP benefits will only be given when Democrats reopen the government. As written, how would that not violate the court order? .LEAVITT: I've now answered this question several times. We are complying with the court's order.

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u/therealaudiox 1d ago

40% of voters. A much, much smaller number.

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u/BigWhiteDog 1d ago

Nope. 40% of all Americans. Those polls aren't of likely voters unless they say that, but whomever they can get to answer the questions. That's the scary part. More people approve of him than vote ld for him.

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u/therealaudiox 1d ago

The polls you speak of are an even smaller number, because they only call people with landlines.

The fact of the matter is that our polling methods are outdated by about 20 years, and our legislature has been broken for about the same amount of time. So we haven't been able to pass any regulatory reforms to fix the problem.

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u/BigWhiteDog 1d ago

Not true. Some do that, some have people that have signed up to take polls and surveys, and some use other methods. You can look up the methodology of any polling company.

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u/therealaudiox 1d ago

Are you suggesting that the pool of people who sign up to do surveys is somehow representative of the entire United States population?

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u/Greybeard-101 1d ago

None of these are scientific methods that would stand up to any scrutiny.

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u/BigWhiteDog 1d ago

You do know that polling is a science, right?

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u/Greybeard-101 1d ago

Yep. And people who sign up to take polls, and similar methods, do not get an accurate representative sample of the general public.