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Amazingly, when voting time comes, the country tends to appear center right. Could there polls be wrong?
by yostrovs 7y ago
Amazingly, when voting time comes, the country tends to appear center right. Could there polls be wrong?
- rwmurrayVT 7y agoUhh, I'd check the popular vote counts over the last 25+ years.
- scarface74 7y agoNo the polls are correct. Many people’s overriding concerns don’t show up in any of the parent poster’s numbers. Poll after poll shows the majority of Republican voters concerns are for more “cultural” than economic. Especially when you take into account how electoral votes are distributed.
- roywiggins 7y agoWe've never had a plebiscite on any of those issues. Conservatives have a structural advantage in the House and Senate due to the way liberals bunch up in cities.
- dbingham 7y agoMuch of the country is gerrymandered. The popular vote skews less center right than the outcome of the election suggests. And only about half the country votes in the first place. If you look at where the newly appearing votes went in big wave elections (notably Obama) a big chunk of those votes are left leaning.
- dfxm12 7y agoThe USA appears to be more than "center" right, but that's beside the point. People weigh certain issues more heavily than others. So while someone might be pro union, they might vote for an anti-union candidate because of another stance they are more passionate about.
- nabla9 7y agoIn the US voting is first past the post, so the election result can differ radically from popular opinion. Senate representation is also skewed.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoThis is the result of the electoral college, gerrymandering, successfully convincing people not to vote, and fear mongering the death of white culture.