{"id":7403,"date":"2022-03-07T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:52:59","slug":"there-is-more-than-one-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7403","title":{"rendered":"There Is More Than One Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“There\u2019s a mountain of baseless overlapping claims piled up inside the stultifying biodome of the Big Lie: voters casting multiple ballots, dead people voting, ballot-counting machines flipping votes, foreign<\/a>nations<\/a>hacking<\/a> systems to swap totals. The Big Lie is an \u00e0 la carte conspiracy theory \u2014 a bit like QAnon in that respect \u2014 where adherents pick and choose what sounds right to them and disregard what doesn\u2019t. Each individual who believes the Big Lie has their own suspicions about what took place, a personal recipe of different conspiracies to nourish their belief that the election was illegitimate. In right-wing chat groups on the messaging app Telegram, these theories are traded as casually as chats about the weather.”
…
“Every iteration of the Big Lie, though, is wrong. The ones in the darkest corner of the Internet? Wrong. The ones brought forward in lawsuits by the Trump campaign<\/a>? Wrong. The ones already debunked by news sources? Still wrong. There is no evidence of widespread fraud<\/a> in the 2020 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, polling gives us a glimpse of the most popular theories on the Big Lie menu. Last summer, a YouGov\/CBS News poll<\/a> asked voters who thought there had been widespread voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exactly what they thought had happened. They were asked about various sources of voting and how much of the voter fraud came from those sources, either \u201ca lot of it,\u201d \u201csome of it\u201d or \u201chardly any or none.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventy-seven percent said \u201ca lot\u201d of voter fraud and irregularities had come from ballots cast by mail, and 70 percent said a lot of it had come from voting machines or equipment that were manipulated, but just 22 percent said a lot of the fraud had come from ballots cast in person. Racism also appeared to inform a lot of thinking around the Big Lie: 72 percent said a lot of the fraud had come from ballots cast in major cities and urban areas, compared with 22 percent and 14 percent who said a lot of it had come from suburbs and rural areas, respectively. And 39 percent of those who believed voter fraud was widespread said \u201ca lot\u201d of fraud had come from ballots cast in Black communities, while 25 percent said so for white communities and 27 percent said so for voters in Hispanic communities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When they asked Americans to compare hypothetical political candidates, Republican voters favored candidates who embraced the Big Lie by an average of 5.7 percentage points to candidates who accurately said Trump lost the election. This suggests that the Big Lie is not going anywhere soon and that it will have a meaningful sway on elections. Already we\u2019ve witnessed the Big Lie being wielded as a campaign tool<\/a> by Republican candidates across the country, demonstrating the power of this belief among the party\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as polls continue to capture the millions of Americans who endorse the Big Lie, precisely what they believe matters less than how that belief influences their actions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/there-is-more-than-one-big-lie\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There\u2019s a mountain of baseless overlapping claims piled up inside the stultifying biodome of the Big Lie: voters casting multiple ballots, dead people voting, ballot-counting machines flipping votes, foreign nations hacking systems to swap totals. The Big Lie is an \u00e0 la carte conspiracy theory \u2014 a bit like QAnon in that respect \u2014 where adherents pick and choose what sounds right to them and disregard what doesn\u2019t. Each individual who believes the Big Lie has their own suspicions about what took place, a personal recipe of different conspiracies to nourish their belief that the election was illegitimate. In right-wing chat groups on the messaging app Telegram, these theories are traded as casually as chats about the weather.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Every iteration of the Big Lie, though, is wrong. The ones in the darkest corner of the Internet? Wrong. The ones brought forward in lawsuits by the Trump campaign? Wrong. The ones already debunked by news sources? Still wrong. There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
\nStill, polling gives us a glimpse of the most popular theories on the Big Lie menu. Last summer, a YouGov\/CBS News poll asked voters who thought there had been widespread voter fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exactly what they thought had happened. They were asked about various sources of voting and how much of the voter fraud came from those sources, either \u201ca lot of it,\u201d \u201csome of it\u201d or \u201chardly any or none.\u201d <\/p>\n

Seventy-seven percent said \u201ca lot\u201d of voter fraud and irregularities had come from ballots cast by mail, and 70 percent said a lot of it had come from voting machines or equipment that were manipulated, but just 22 percent said a lot of the fraud had come from ballots cast in person. Racism also appeared to inform a lot of thinking around the Big Lie: 72 percent said a lot of the fraud had come from ballots cast in major cities and urban areas, compared with 22 percent and 14 percent who said a lot of it had come from suburbs and rural areas, respectively. And 39 percent of those who believed voter fraud was widespread said \u201ca lot\u201d of fraud had come from ballots cast in Black communities, while 25 percent said so for white communities and 27 percent said so for voters in Hispanic communities.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“When they asked Americans to compare hypothetical political candidates, Republican voters favored candidates who embraced the Big Lie by an average of 5.7 percentage points to candidates who accurately said Trump lost the election. This suggests that the Big Lie is not going anywhere soon and that it will have a meaningful sway on elections. Already we\u2019ve witnessed the Big Lie being wielded as a campaign tool by Republican candidates across the country, demonstrating the power of this belief among the party\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n

And as polls continue to capture the millions of Americans who endorse the Big Lie, precisely what they believe matters less than how that belief influences their actions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,372,198,318,135,171,132,714,386,1088],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-false-beliefs","tag-falsehoods","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-voter-fraud","tag-voters","tag-votes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}