Voters often parrot the party line, even when polls suggest otherwise
- Written by Justin Buchler, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
People line up to vote in the 2008 election in Arlington, Virginia.Rob Crandall/Shutterstock.com
As the 2020 election approaches, voters will see a variety of polls. Many of them will be misleading.
Over time, political science has learned which types of questions are informative and which are not, based on models of public opinion. But many of the...
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