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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you think the right wing are less willing to talk to pollsters?
We (hubby and I) developed this idea in 2016, and it seems more likely now. I just heard a talking head suggest this. Have you heard this anywhere?
e.g., Tennessee/Bredesen
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Johnny2X2X
(19,386 posts)A hand full of races either way were off in the polls, but we performed almost exactly as expected. This was a very non dramatic night.
LAS14
(13,798 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)more paranoid, less likely to talk to strangers, more likely to be private about politics, less likely to have cell phones.
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)I know this from personal experience. Righties know they're being selfish and bigoted and it makes them self-conscious. They know others will look down on them for it. That's where the nasty resentment on the right comes from; it burns them that they have keep their feelings concealed and come up with elaborate rationalizations for fundamentally selfish positions.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Close races were close. Red states got redder, blue districts got bluer.
I know I would be.
TomSlick
(11,177 posts)would you admit it to a stranger on the telephone?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I have also read studies where pollsters are less likely to approach mean, frowning, grouchy, slimy, creepy, menacing, frightening and sinister looking people. You know, like rethuglicans, so they get underreported that way too.
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