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S4E20: How Polls Predict Voting Preferences In A Presidential Election Year?


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►Where do pollsters get their participants?

►Do election polling methods and target audiences change as we get closer to Election Day?

►Do Americans vote for candidates who match their values and positions? Or do we vote for candidates with the best campaigns?

►Are there tried-and-true election polling methods?

►Do polls influence election outcomes?

►How frequently have polls completely botched their predictions?

►What is my guest's prediction for this election?


*****🚩About My Guest: Dr. Christopher Wlezien is a professor of government in the University of Texas at Austin, with research focus in public opinion, elections, mass media, research methods and other related subjects. He is a Principal Investigator of Datasets on Polls and the Timeline of Elections, a quite impressive research project into polling history that we discuss in this interview.

He is the author and co-author of many books, including the following:

  1. Information and Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics),
  2. Who Gets Represented?,
  3. The Future of Election Studies,
  4. Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy,
  5. The Timeline of Presidential Elections - How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter, a book that we discuss in this interview


The link for the video fo this conversation will provided here later today.

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