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>Is America tired of Musk and DOGE? Poll shows dwindling support for cost-cutting billionaire https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

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Took me a while to find poll results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1kdcXmy8B1zajwnb6...

2k respondents is not very representative tbh

The number of respondents isn't what is important. The important thing is that the people polled are representative, which typically means they are as diverse as the population as a whole. Do you have any reason to think they're not as diverse as the population as a whole?

I have worked for 7 years in market research running such surveys. You would always want to aim for many-fold higher coverage especially when balancing by traits.

Guess it'll depend on how things go. I imagine a lot of people are like the Robert McCabe guy:

>I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason. https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/02/trump-voter-shocked-to-g...

We are very much shifting away from Tesla/Musk topic.

Here in Europe we've all seen what happens when you inflate the socialistic bubble, especially with government jobs. Greece have not yet fully recovered to this day.

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