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The Poll That Ended Dilbert

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Is Rasmussen a Troll?

This is obviously not a good use of polling. And I just think, you know, setting aside the sample issues, this is not an answerable question. It's just even even if you tried for some reason to answer in good faith, I understand why large chunks of the people who responded to this poll said they were uncertainJust because if you're not aware of the role that this phrase plays in the zeitgeist, which obviously we can and should talk about,. The background for people who aren't familiar is that it kind of became popular on kind of the,you know, in the like the white nationalist circles in 2017 as basically as a troll.

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