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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Aug \ parent \ on: Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right? econ
If you don’t watch TV prime time then you probably don’t watch TV news or vote?
you probably don’t watch TV news
Correct
or vote
Incorrect in my case. I just got information about candidates from sources other than the tv. E.g. I used the "on the issues" website which lists an assortment of political topics with quotations from candidates about those topics. But I think the pollsters didn't want to poll people like me -- they only wanted to poll normies. Which seems like selection bias. The polls almost become a mirror of "do you watch Fox or CNN/NBC/MSNBC?" which rarely offer nuanced analysis. So you end up polling only low information voters and presenting that as "this is a snapshot of the nation's political stance" when it's only a snapshot of what the non-thinkers think.
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Polls have always had selection bias.
Most voters don’t think. Politics is more emotion than reason.
Most voters are single issue: climate change or petroleum or tax policy and regulation or cuts in spending
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