Poll Finds Voters Associate the Word Rapist With Trump Via Slate

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Interesting.
BTW--I would have said Bigot or Racist.



Poll Finds Voters Associate the Word Rapist With Trump | Via Slate

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You’ll Never Guess What Word Voters Most Often Associate With Trump and Women
OK, fine, it’s rapist.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/poll-trump-women-words-rapist.html


By Christina Cauterucci

Aug 23, 20195:57 PM



What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of President Donald Trump and women? Pollsters from PerryUndem and Supermajority, a new women’s activism nonprofit, asked 1,912 likely 2020 voters to try this free-association exercise. And wouldn’t you know it—a plurality of respondents said rapist.

I’m no communications professional, but to me, these results seem to identify a serious messaging problem the president may have around issues of gender. You can’t really do worse than rapist when it comes to the public perception of your approach to women. Sure, 2.1 percent of respondents came up with abuser—but that’s more of an amorphous description of a person’s conduct than a specific, identifiable crime. (Is it emotional abuse? A groping thing?) And yeah, 2.9 percent said predator—but that’s a general state of being, not a real accusation. And OK, 5.1 percent went with misogynist—but what politician who’s called for the punishment of abortion-seeking women hasn’t been hit with that label? It’s small potatoes. When 6.3 percent of people in a demographically weighted survey blurt out rapist when they hear your name with the word women, though? Yeesh! No place to go from there but up!

Since the survey question was open-ended and elicited 627 unique answers, PerryUndem and Supermajority opted to illustrate the responses in a word cloud rather than a graph. The resulting graphic is pretty hilarious.
The word cloud with prominent words like rapist, predator, disrespectful, etc.
PerryUndem and Supermajority


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1. A 'disrespectful predator', 'good liar', 'sexist pig', 'rapist chauvinist', and 'misogynist nothing'

Sounds about right.