Summary
MSNBC has just conducted a poll in which it asked people if they thought opinion polls accurately reflected actual opinions. The network informs us that 88 percent of those polled answered "no."
This sounds like a surreal joke, but then stories about contemporary politics often do. There is no polite way to phrase this: When it comes to politics, the average person is an idiot. Depressing evidence for this claim can be found in a recent New Yorker essay by Louis Menand, which surveys the political-science literature regarding why people vote the way they do.See the full content of this document
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Average Voter Largely Ignorant
The conclusions from this literature include:
-- No more than 10 percent of the population can be said to have a coherent political belief system, using even a loose...See the full content of this document
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