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Originally Posted by Gozer
There is reason to believe that current polling is under-representing Trump's support. 'Social desirability bias' will push respondents away from shameful, but true responses.
Relevant reading, on this topic and Trump's popularity in general;
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424...thoritarianism |
In the primary's trump consistently under performed his polling providing no evidence of a shy trump affect. Though he does perform better in online polling then live which could be an indication.
There was a book written by a UofM prof called the Authoritarians just before the 2nd bush election that discussed a lot of whats in that article. It would be an interesting but dated read now.