
The Midterms Biases and a Lack of Moderation
We Are Not Saved
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Is There a Bias in 2020 Presidential Pre-Election Polls?
A recent paper by Vanderbilt University Professor Joshua Clinton and two colleagues called reluctant Republicans, eager Democrats, partisan non-response, and the accuracy of 2020 presidential pre-election telephone polls indicates that this is exactly what is happening. In Wisconsin, likely Republicans according to the voter file were less likely to cooperate with the survey than those who did not respond. The point is that there is increasingly an anti-authoritarian streak among Republicans. Nor can I say I entirely blame them.
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