Electorate Polling Shows Very Pro-Cannabis, Anti-Biden Bias As November 2020 Nears

Non-scientific flash polling from the last two FULCRUM News audience preference surveys yielded some interesting data.

We say non-scientific, because FULCRUM’s independent, mostly tech savvy online audience is self-selecting and not a random sample of the voting populace. Yet, it represents the online independent community to some degree or other I’d presume, and these results are startling — in a good way. We present the aggregate findings below, and encourage you to look out for our next survey sometime this week on the FULCRUM web site. It will ask how your behavior has changed in areas of alcohol consumption, television/Internet usage, etc since the start of the pandemic.

An astounding 97.3% — nearly all of the respondents, statistically speaking — support legalizing cannabis. Such a move would mirror Canada’s legalization, the legalization success in Uruguay, and decriminalization policy successes in Portugal.

About 75% of respondents know someone personally who uses recreational or medical cannabis, and that may be fueling increasingly tolerant views toward the forbidden leaf in the West, even among non-users.

Respondents showed overwhelming support of Donald Trump (83.84%), while support for Joe Biden was nearly non-existent — at just above 1 percent, with the remainder going to independent candidate and other choices.

Interestingly, to us as news publishers anyway, was this data point: the majority of respondents plan to consume their election-related news via various websites, with YouTube a distant second option, and television below that — nearly as many of the respondents will be consuming podcasts as watching TV to get their election info, based on the survey results. And only about 1 percent will be relying on newspaper brands.