About two-thirds of readers overall said they were unhappy or very unhappy with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's election win in an online poll this week.
Some 13,824 of you participated. The poll was run across Village Media's local sites.
One sharp difference related to age: younger readers were much happier with the prospect of a second Trump administration:
Women are much unhappier than men:
And the lower a reader's income, the unhappier they were likely to be:
Reaction to the U.S. result has a logical relationship to views on Canadian politics. Note, though, that over a third of Conservative voters are unhappy or very unhappy with Trump's win:
Cross-referencing a poll from earlier in the fall showed that people, in general, predicted their preferred outcome as the likeliest outcome:
There are very sharp differences based on views of the Ukraine conflict:
Our poll questions that get at whether or not a reader has some traditionalist views — looking at support for the monarchy or the separate school system — show mixed results. Monarchists are unhappier about Trump, but there was no relationship to views on separate schools:
Interestingly, cannabis use correlates (mildly) to happiness about Trump's win, but support for cannabis legalization correlates in the other direction. The only way I can interpret this is that cannabis legalization was a signature policy of the federal Liberals, and so some Conservative supporters have partisan cueing to oppose it.
Positive feelings about tattoos correlate with positive feelings about Trump (though this may in fact be a graph about age.)
Consistently (other than cannabis legalization, above), there is a correlation between libertarian views, and protective views about digital privacy, and support for Trump:
