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Why parties shouldn’t use polls to vet candidates

Polling is not suited for determining democratic outcomes

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G. Elliott Morris
Oct 06, 2019
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The takeaway: With all their uncertainty, can we really be confident that polls are measuring the “pulse of democracy”? Maybe, but they are not up to the task of determining who gets to run for president.

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