Earlier this year, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked voters a simple question: “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”
The answers he got back were, as he put it in a Daily Signal podcast last week, “the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen.”
Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. As Rasmussen put it, he’d rather see that number lower, but that’s not bad.
But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating. And among those who are “politically obsessed” – meaning that they talk about politics every day – that number shot up to 69%.
Keep in mind that this elite 1% group is overwhelmingly liberal. According to Rasmussen, these are mainly well-educated urbanites who make more than $150,000 a year and think Joe Biden is doing a great job. Nearly three-quarters identify as Democrats.
They are also highly influential when it comes to policy, and they are completely out of touch with everyday Americans. A few examples from the survey:
- Nearly 60% say there is too much individual freedom in America – double the rate of all Americans.
- More than two-thirds (67%) favor rationing of energy and food to combat the threat of “climate change.”
- Nearly three-quarters (70%) of the elites trust the government to “do the right thing most of the time.”
- More than two-thirds (67%) say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide.
- Nearly three-quarters (74%) say they are financially better off than before COVID, compared with 20% of the general public.
These elites are also the people who are constantly wailing and gnashing their teeth about how Donald Trump is a “grave threat to democracy.” You can’t turn on the television, open a newspaper, or go to any mainstream news site without being warned that “democracy is on the ballot this November,” or told that Trump is a wannabe dictator, his followers semi-fascists, blah, blah, blah.
Yet most of these same elites would be happy to see Biden and the Democratic Party rob and cheat to steal an election rather than let Trump win a second term in office.
Which of course is what has been happening over the past three years, as the liberal elite class took off the gloves to block Trump’s return to the White House, stretching the law past the breaking point to put him on trial, imposing unprecedented fines (and then bragging that they are bankrupting him), and trying to block his name from showing up on the ballot.
As we noted in this space not long ago, leftist elites are even advocating that lawmakers refuse to certify the election if Trump wins it.
As Rasmussen puts it, “they don’t have much respect for the opinions of voters.”
And if these elites do manage to lie, cheat, and steal to secure Biden’s reelection? Well, they will declare that democracy has been saved, reassure the public that the election was 100% legitimate, and label anyone who thinks otherwise as an election-denying insurrectionist.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
It would have been nice, helpful and informative if I&I had defined what it refers to as “the elites.”
It would also have been nice if I&I told us, in the description of elites, how many elites it thinks there are.
It would also have been nice if I&I told us how many Republicans are believed to be “the elites” and how many Democrats. Also, are there any independents that are elite?
Also, the percentage of elites in the Democratic and Republican parties, and in those who represent themselves as Independent would have been helpful.
Except for the above 4 paragraphs, the column was very informative (also, I&I is right, it’s VERY scary).
It also might indicate the fear that the elite Dem’s have that Trump is perceived by the elites as really the more powerful candidate this year (compared to Biden or third parties).
It also might be implying why Democrats are not too upset over the (to me, it seemed obvious-statistically and every other way) the outcome of the 2020 election-and aren’t very upset over the Biden’s attempt. at election interference through its Lawfare campaign (using what use to be the US’s “Justice” Department)!
Thanks for the comment. If you click on the second link in the editorial, it takes you to a page where the surveys methodology is explained. https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Them-vs-Us_CTUP-Rasmussen-Study-FINAL.pdf
We didn’t want to use up a lot of space explaining that but should have made it clear that details on the survey are on that page.
and even more terrifying…when there is a will there is a way.
I think it’s essential to know the criteria Rasmussen applies to identify the “elite 1%.” In his own words: “[They] are people who make at least $150,000 a year and live in a densely populated urban area (more than 10,000 people per square mile) and they have a post-graduate degree. The last one is very important. They are 1% of the population and are extraordinarily influential. A heavy concentration of them went to one of 12 elite schools. The reason I bring that up is because half the policies and positions in government and half the corporate board positions in America are held by people who went to one of these schools. If you’re thinking of who is shaping the main stream media narrative, it’s this group.”
These are people who by nature of their assumed superiority consider themselves several notches above the average citizen and, therefore, are entitled to dictate the rules and laws under which we average citizens will live (while they, of course, remain above their rules and laws whenever required). Of course they would endorse a “by any means necessary” approach to obtaining and maintaining power. The results of this survey do not surprise me in the least.
In at least one way it’s worse than the poll results show – because of a question they did not ask: “What do you think of the democratic party’s use of Joe Biden as a figurehead to sidestep constitutional term limits for President Obama? Strongly approve? (vast majority of “elites” and least informed).. .. strongly disapprove (vast majority of middle/real Americans)
Bull.you can’t cheat. You have to have a social security number to vote and only get one vote per social security number . If it was easy, a lot of people would be doing it.
SSNs are not required in order to vote. If you gave your SSN to someone in order to vote, you made a big mistake.
Giving squatters ownership of private Homes is Treason and part of the UN/Globalists plans