The article you linked seems to show that it did, in fact, have a moderating effect? > NORC surveyed the group before the conference, and again on the same que

The article you linked seems to show that it did, in fact, have a moderating effect? > NORC surveyed the group before the conference, and again on the same questions at the end; the results were compared with a similar panel of voters who did not get an intense dose of deliberative democracy in the interim. Voters at the event on both the left and the right appeared to edge toward the center. Democratic support receded for a $15 federal minimum wage and for “Medicare for all”; Republican support grew for rejoining the Paris climate agreement and for protecting from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children.