Views of swing voters do not matter much to presidential candidates

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 07:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Despite the familiar belief that candidates must appeal to the “moderate middle” of the voting public in order to win elections, U.S. presidential candidates routinely take less-than moderate positions on a variety of issues. Are they catering to the extreme views of their respective core supporters? A new study out today finds that Republican presidential […]

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