Did bad polls make DSA more appealing than it was?
DID BAD POLLS MAKE DSA LOOK MORE APPEALING THAN IT WAS? It wasn’t a total fiction; after all, the candidate in Michigan won, if very narrowly. But especially after Wisconsin, where some polls suggested a DSA landslide was in the works when it wasn’t, it’s reasonable to ask whether the polling contributed to an aura of power around the socialist movement.
- ▪DID BAD POLLS MAKE DSA LOOK MORE APPEALING THAN IT WAS?
- ▪It wasn’t a total fiction; after all, the candidate in Michigan won, if very narrowly.
- ▪But especially after Wisconsin, where some polls suggested a DSA landslide was in the works when it wasn’t, it’s reasonable to ask whether the polling contributed to an aura of power around the socialist movement.
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DID BAD POLLS MAKE DSA LOOK MORE APPEALING THAN IT WAS? There are problems with polls in many elections, but those problems seem to have been particularly pronounced in the last couple of weeks, when Democratic Socialists of America candidates seemed poised to make major progress in their drive to take over the Democratic Party.The short version is that in two statewide primary elections, in Michigan and Wisconsin, faulty polling made DSA (or DSA-adjacent) candidates look almost overwhelmingly popular. It wasn’t a total fiction; after all, the candidate in Michigan won, if very narrowly.
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