• Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There were two big ones, I bookmarked only this one;

    In 2013, researchers from Northwestern University and Stanford found that state legislators throughout the U.S. wildly overestimated the conservatism of their constituents. Republicans were more liable to have a deluded sense of how many of their voters’ wanted to abolish the welfare state, but even Democrats had a tendency to look at their blue districts and see purple or red: On average, legislators from both parties underestimated the level of support for universal health care in their districts by more than 15 percentage points.

    https://scholars.org/contribution/politicians-think-american-voters-are-more-conservative-they-really-are