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What 2020’s Election Poll Errors Tell Us About the Accuracy of Issue Polling

2 Mar 2021

Balanced Tilted As released TECHREG2_W69 Version Version to the public A great deal of confidence 4 5 4 A fair amount of confidence 26 27 27 Not too much confidence 38 38 38 No confidence at all 29 28 29 Refused 2 2 2 Thinking about the role of the government in regulating major technology companies, do you think they should be regulated… Balanced Tilted As released TC5_W69 Version Version to the [...] Balanced Tilted As released GOVNEEDY_W69 Version Version to the public The government should do more to help needy Americans, 56 58 58 even if it means going deeper into debt The government today can’t afford to do much more to 41 40 40 help the needy Refused 2 2 2 Thinking about the nation’s economy… How would you rate economic conditions in this country today? [...] Balanced Tilted As released TRUSTFEDGOV_W71 Version Version to the public Just about always 3 3 2 Most of the time 19 18 18 Only some of the time 64 64 65 Never 14 14 14 Refused 1 1 1 If you had to choose, would you rather have… Balanced Tilted As released GOVSIZE1_W71 Version Version to the public A smaller government providing fewer 45 43 45 services A bigger government providing more services 5 [...] Balanced Tilted As released ELECTBIDENMSSG_W79 Version Version to the public Completely RIGHT message 22 23 24 Mostly RIGHT message 40 41 40 Mostly WRONG message 21 20 20 Completely WRONG message 15 13 14 Refused 3 3 3 How much of a threat, if any, is the coronavirus outbreak for… The health of the U. S. population as a whole Balanced Tilted As released COVIDTHREAT_a_W79 Version Version to the pub [...] Balanced Tilted As released COVIDMASK1_W79 Version Version to the public All or most of the time 85 86 87 Some of the time 7 7 7 Hardly ever 4 4 4 Never 2 2 2 Have not gone to these types of places 2 2 1 Refused 0 0 0 Thinking now about efforts to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, COVID-19… If a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 were available today, would you… Balanced Tilted As released COVID_SCI
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Scott Keeter, Nick Hatley, Arnold Lau, Courtney Kennedy

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United States of America

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