The Saint Louis Catholic blog conducted a similar poll last September. 

Pope vs. Antipope: Dissecting the Poll


"Therefore I put up a poll last week asking readers just to give their opinion: Who do you really think is pope, and why? Even allowing for the undeniable traditionalist (or as others rightly point out, Catholic) bent of the blog, the results surprised me.

I think many are saying, "Hey, I'm either not crazy or else most of us are, but I think Benedict is still pope!"  And of those, most cite the ineffectiveness of the putative abdication or some combination of factors including also allegations of heresy, invalid election, deposition, or mistake of fact.

No, this is definitely not a scientific poll. Votes were limited only by platform, and a person with multiple devices could theoretically vote more than once. Yet there were 674 votes, and a sample of 500 in a scientific poll would yield a +/- of 5%. No, it was not a random sample. Yes, most respondents would be considered traditional Catholics or "conservative" Catholics-- but then again, the poll was intended for Catholics only. I don't consider the editorial board of NCR or America to be Catholic.

But even considering the limitations, the results are, I believe, quite significant:

WHICH BEST DESCRIBES YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE CURRENT POPE?

Francis is Pope                      16%
Benedict is Pope                    72%
Some other person is Pope      1%
No one is Pope                        9%


IF YOU CHOSE ANY ANSWER IN POLL ABOVE THAT INDICATES FRANCIS IS NOT POPE, WHY DO YOU THINK SO?

Benedict's abdication was not effective         38% 
Francis' election was invalid                            5% 
Francis has lost his office due to heresy          4% 
Some combination of the above                     42%
Neither Francis nor Benedict was ever pope    8%

Out of 674 votes, a staggering 490 said that in their opinion, Benedict XVI is still Pope. That's 72% of those who voted. But who cares if it were "only" half? It boggles the mind.

Of those, the plurality focused on the ineffectiveness of the putative abdication. Meaning, either he never intended to resign; he wrote his resignation in a legally ineffective way; he made a mistake in fact by not intending to resign the whole office; or that he was coerced such that it was truly involuntary.

Even allowing for the readership's "style" of Catholicism (for which Francis does not care), even allowing for some multiple votes-- the least that can be said is that hundreds of Catholics who found this poll on this blog have the opinion that Benedict XVI is still Pope and that the guy the world and most of the self-identified Catholics of the world hail as pope is in fact NOT THE POPE. Ann Barnhardt cited this for the notion that such persons should not feel isolated, weird or crazy-- that there are others.  True, but I ask you to consider this: When was the last time in history (not including obvious interregnum periods) that at least 400 Catholics at any one time were not certain who the Pope was? It's unprecedented-- unless the sedes are right. And I don't believe they are.

This uncertainty, in addition to the maladies arising from personnel, policies and persecutions-- this uncertainty by and of itself-- is a chastisement from God. A chastisement that only the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart can alleviate.

There are perhaps practical solutions. Perhaps a true public correction/declaration of deposition would solve the problem of the current occupant. But it would not lift a cloud over the next conclave unless that declaration of deposition leads Benedict to claim the mantle that may still be his, or else prove that he did (or now would) freely and effectively resign, explaining away the coercive indicators from the last such time."

http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2017/09/pope-vs-antipope-dissecting-poll.html

We’re up to 74, come on folks don’t be shy, vote early and vote often😁  Surely we can do better than the 600 mentioned in the post below. 

That has to be a mainstream or perhaps "conservative" Catholic blog. To get those kind of numbers, you have to go well beyond the kind of serious Trads you find on CathInfo.

72% of them voted Benedict was still Pope. That's roughly 485 people. I didn't realise there were that many people on the planet who held that view. I thought it was just Father Kramer and a handful of others. 

Did you catch the other detail?
They said that it was only limited by IP address, so you could vote as many times as you could snag another IP address (Tor, proxy, mobile, work, home, etc.)
So it's a pretty worthless poll.

True enough, I think some Benedictist must've voted many times, because unless it's a blog specifically for people who believe Benedict's still Pope(and the excerpt suggested it wasn't). 

I actually believe it.  I think, among the "conservative" and indult-type Novus Ordites, most who believe Francis is not pope do in fact believe Benedict is still pope.  It will be interesting to see what these folks will say when Benedict finally kicks the bucket.

What would happen if Francis kicks the bucket before Benedict?

What would happen if Francis kicks the bucket before Benedict?

Don't think it'd change their stance on Benedict's secret Papacy. I wonder what they believe would happen if Francis died, a new Pope was elected, and THEN Benedict died. Would that Pope be valid in their eyes? Probably not. But would his successor? 

I am not sure. There is no doubt that Francis is a heretic; even the stupidest of people could figure this out. At the same time, I'm not sure how to approach the nearly six-decade long interregnum if sedevacantism is the answer. That seems like an unusually long time to not have the pope.

We're caught between two impossibilities - that the Church could have 60 years of heretical/borderline heretical possibly masonic Popes, or that the Church could have 60 years with no Pope. This is why, although I disagree with it, I can understand why R&R is safe middleground, cautioning against two risky extremes.

Even guys that support Bishop Fellay, like Louie Verrechio, don't believe that Francis is Pope. The whole Benedict/resignationist thing is much much bigger than what people see at first look, as in there are many more people who believe it is likely. And what is most interesting is that they are spread out in many groups (SSPX/Resistance/Ecclesia Dei/ Diocesan).

For anyone with time to watch a 15 minute video, it's worth it.