The mythical swing voter

… The short story is much of the apparent changes in public opinion are actually changes in patterns of nonresponse: When it looked like Romney jumped in popularity, what was really happening was that disaffected Democrats were not responding to the survey while resurgent Republicans were more likely to respond. CONT.

Andrew Gelman (Columbia), The Monkey Cage

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