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Are there even any Scientific American subscribers who would vote for Trump? Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers.

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Anecdotally, a lot of the sorts of people I've met who would subscribe to SciAm are not particularly politically conscious and subscribe to the "enlightened centrism" / "both sides" kind of philosophy.

So people who believe in nuance?

Why did you reframe what the parent said? This tone is usually used to make an implicit point beyond or in contrast to the original statement, but I can't identify it in this case.

Or their motivations are as they say they are ...

> Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers.

Who would pay money for a magazine subscription because of a political endorsement?

Maybe the editors just thought this was the right thing to do right now.

Trump has a 50% approval rating, so I would guess there is some level of overlap between the two groups.

Probably a fairly small overlap, but it almost certainly exists.

43%, i believe. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

he's been <50% approval, >50% disapproval since January 21, 2017.

Just depends who is doing the poll.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/Trump-approvalrating-poll-t...

the values i gave are the weighted means of many pollsters.

Either way its pedantry to the broader point I was trying to make of "There are certainly Trump supporters who subscribe to Scientific American"

ah. that claim does seem entirely plausible, yes.

Teump never had 50% approval rating. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Despite what you see in social media, most people are not a stereotype.

Care to elaborate? I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at.

Trump's average is at 40%, and is currently hovering around 42%.

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