• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You can’t just add up D and Rs and expect to get total population…

    A bunch of Americans still don’t identify as either.

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      20 hours ago

      That’s why I specifically said non-Republicans.

      Edit: here, I’ll walk you through the math. The article says 70% of Republicans approved of him and 33% of everyone approved of him. Republicans make up ~30% of the population. 70% of 30% is 21%. That leaves 12% unaccounted for (33-21). So 12% out of everyone both approves of him and doesn’t identify as a Republican, while 21% out of everyone both approves of him and identifies as Republican. The remaining 67% of everyone doesn’t approve of him whether or not they identify as a Republican.