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[โ€“] klay1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

never forget: those people sitting in that town hall are already a filtered group. They are not all voters. Society may or may not still agree with that Mike Flood.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

A filtered group that is selected to be favorable toward the representative, not hostile to him.

If they can't even get their filtered group to overwhelmingly support their positions, it seems unlikely that a general sampling of the population would.