Nearly half of Republicans and a quarter of Democrats said they will not accept election results if their candidate loses.

Nearly half of Republicans say they won’t accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would “take action to overturn” the results, according to data released Tuesday.

About a quarter of Democrats said they wouldn’t accept the results if their candidate loses, and fewer Democrats than Republicans said they would “take action to overturn” the results.

The nonpartisan World Justice Project, which keeps an index of how strong the rule of law is in more than 100 countries, gathered the data as part of a larger study. The poll was conducted through online interviews with 1,046 American households between June 10 and June 18.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    14% admit it.

    Closer to 40%, probably more.

    The south started the Civil War because they lost an election, they’re not that far different now.

    • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      I think the difference now a days compared to back then is rich and powerful people (plantation owners) wanted the war to maintain their wealth and power. Right now I don’t think really any powerful companies actually want a civil war. They’re happy to fan the flames and play both sides to get the attention off of them and the insane power and wealth they have but I think they all know a civil war would be bad for profits. So because of this I doubt it would ever fully become a civil war, closest it would be is violent protests or things like January 6th which would be put down by the states or federal government before it got far enough to become something like a civil war.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        It won’t become a civil war.

        But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: ‘yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence’, etc, ad nauseum.

        We’ll need ‘demonstrations’ for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they’ll arrange them.