… Some astute analysts have argued that we have to be cautious about highly publicized polling showing that Democrats are a lot more concerned about the virus than Republicans. People could just be echoing their party’s point of view as a kind of partisan cheerleading — a phenomenon that is often described as “expressive survey response.”
The Google Trends data from the past month suggests otherwise. CONT.
Michael Tesler (UC Irvine), Monkey Cage