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Some poll rules of thumb for today. 1) After major events, beware differential nonresponse producing a temporary bounce for the candidate with more enthused supporters. 2) Remember people aren't accurate at predicting what will change their views. As always, direct vote choice is the best question.
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3) People are even worse at predicting what will change **other people's** opinions. Questions about this tell you basically nothing about the state of the race. A big issue here is the Third Person Effect, in which people think things that haven't changed their views will still persuade others.
Third-person effect - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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Example: Most people thought Trump won the debate. Evaluations of the candidates among these people moved barely at all. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-trump-...
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Another post debate poll, this one from Morning Consult. It matches the predebate FiveThirtyEight polling average of a tied race.
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It's also a way of projecting onto others beliefs you would be embarrassed to claim for yourself.