I know basically nothing about either of them aside from having extensively heard about how Platner is a nazi war criminal who had an excellent time murdering people. Looking at their stances specifically on trans issues for about a minute, it didn’t seem like there were significant differences in their stated stances.

While I’m sure the sample size is smaller, that’s still a pretty wild swing - is there something I missed in my nearly nonexistent research that would explain why enbies favor Mills so heavily? Given the other numbers, it’s hard to believe that the war crimes are a significant factor for voters.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Conservative hogs putting in sarcastic answers for a gender field that commits the crime of being open-ended, maybe

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Having dug into the results more, I do think this probably explains about 6 of the respondents, but I think that leaves the 3 democratic primary voters that all chose Mills as statistically insignificant polling errors.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could be they trust a nazi, a proud vet, or a cis man somewhat less than someone who is none of those things even if their stated policy is similar.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I’d just somewhat expect to see that reflected in other demographics too - in the end I think it’s mostly just way too small of a sample.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Generally I’d be skeptical of any demographic research that has a separate result outcome for enbies since the amount of enbies is so small it’s difficult to make it representative.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, before digging into their data, I incorrectly assumed their sample size for this number was larger because of the percentage. I’m still not quite clear how they interpreted 3 for Mills and 0 for Platner as +96.7%, that seems more like +100%, but I’m not a statistician, so wtf do I know.