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Roughly 1 in 5 voters said they find it credible that the shooting was staged and not intended to kill Trump, including 33% of Biden’s supporters and 12% of those who back Trump. The majority of voters (62%) said the unsubstantiated notion is not credible. Notably, 38% of voters said Trump himself was to blame for the violent moment.

Over half of voters, including 53% of Biden supporters and 52% of Trump’s supporters, said they were “very concerned” about election-related violence this year, while roughly 2 in 5 said they were “somewhat concerned,” with little divide based on candidate support.

FYI:
It costs more than 3 cents to produce 1 penny.

2/3rds of pennies drop out of circulation into coin jars requiring the constant replacement of these coins that have "disappeared" leading to a spiral where more and more need to be mined every year.

A conservative estimate holds that there are 240 billion pennies lying around the United States.

One out of every two circulating coins minted in the United States has a face value of 1 cent.

$100 worth of pennies weighs about 55 pounds.)

A Federal Reserve survey found that Americans paid with cash just 18 percent of the time.

Because a portion of America’s children will, inevitably, swallow coins, by law all coins are required to be detectable by X-ray.

Coinstar machines have processed over one trillion coins of various denominations, worth about $67 billion dollars.

Coinstar is practically the sole medium by which pennies migrate around the USA.

Pennies occupy disproportionate space; at 50% of a jar, they contribute only about 6% of its value.

Theodore Roosevelt began replacing coins he considered "ugly, artistically of atrocious hideousness,” with designs he liked more. He put Lincoln on the penny because he felt like it & consulted no one about his decision.

The Secretary of the US Treasury could stop producing pennies today; no legislation is needed.

Canada eliminated its 1-cent coin in 2013 but ONLY its physical coin, not the mathematical concept of 1 cent. Payment by any kind of noncash transaction is STILL calculated exactly as it was before the penny was abolished.

The final digit of Canadian cash transactions is rounded to the nearest nickel: 1 and 2, nearest to 0 nickels, round down to 0; 3 and 4 round up to a nickel — 5; 6 and 7, also nearest to one nickel, round down — 5 again; 8 and 9, nearest to 10 cents, round up.

Courtland VA conservative GOP Rabih Abuismail and Livingston GOP representative Kirk Twigg "I think we should throw those books in a fire," Abuismail said. Meanwhile, Twigg said he wanted to "see the books before we burn them so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff."

Missouri GOP candidate for Secretary of State has gone viral after she was shown burning LGBTQ-friendly books with a flamethrower. "These books come from a Missouri public library," Valentina Gomez said in a video posted to social media site X, formerly Twitter, "When I am in office, they will burn."

For example, you and your cousin go out to a restaurant. You’re a liberal Democrat and they’re a conservative Republican. They’re wearing a shirt that says, “Straight, White, Conservative, Christian, Male. How else can I offend you today?” And someone, a complete stranger, comes up to you both and starts yelling at your cousin over the shirt. What do you do?

Capitalism dictates that free goods are lower quality & that pricier goods are high quality. Do you agree? What base of voters is getting higher quality / more accurate information because they pay for it? In this era of "fake news" do liberals or conservatives hold the high ground? The capitalist market would predict that honest journalism would survive the competitive market place where free or biased journalism would not succeed.