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Deplorables: By the Numbers.

By Brainwrap
Saturday Sep 10, 2016 · 12:39 PM PDT

Over at ThinkProgress, Judd Legum has an excellent data-based analysis [ https://thinkprogress.org/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-trump-supporters-this-is-what-the-polling-data-says-2b37625a1df3#.noxzfolkj ] which proves that, according to hard data, yes, at least “half” of Trump supporters are indeed racist, bigoted, xenophobic misogynists, and are therefore indeed worth tossing into the “Deplorable Basket”.

I decided to do my own quick analysis, coming at it from a different angle. I figured since I'm known as a data/numbers guy, let's do some quick math: [ There is a link an embedded link in each sentence If you are interested.. ;)

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the current total U.S. population is around 324 million people.

Also according to the U.S. Census Bureau, during the 2014 election, there were appx. 142 million registered voters.

Let's assume that the total number of registered voters is up to around 150 million even today.

According to RealClearPolitics, at the moment, Donald Trump is supported by around 43% of registered voters.

43% of 150 million = 64.5 million people.

Taking Clinton's "half" literally (which is of course unbelieveably silly), that's 50% of his supporters, or around 32.2 million registered voters.

32.2 million / 324 million = appx. 10% of the total U.S. population.

In other words, if you take Hillary Clinton's statement literally, she's effectively saying that 10% of the U.S. population is racist.

This is hardly a controversial statement.

If you turn that around, the real reason Trump supporters are getting all bent out of shape this morning (hey, I thought they hated it when people are too "PC"!) isn't so much that Hillary said that a lot of Trump supporters are racist...it's because she (effectively) said that pretty much all racists are Trump supporters.

This is also hardly a controversial statement.

That is all.

Related -

Is Hillary Clinton Right About Trump Supporters?
This Is What The Polling Data Says

She has an opinion. These are the facts.

https://thinkprogress.org/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-trump-supporters-this-is-what-the-polling-data-says-2b37625a1df3#.noxzfolkj

Oh YES, this is a HUGE DEAL! ......
really?
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/10/1568748/-Deplorables-By-the-Numbers