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Emily Ekins has identified five different types of voters that elected Donald J. Trump the 45th President of the United States. Do these groups represent a big shift in American politics? In this episode we also discuss polling methodology and analysis. How reliable are public opinion polls and voter surveys?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Here is the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group Ekins participated in.
And here is her report on “The Five Types of Trump Voters.”
Ekins also mentions FiveThirtyEight’s Pollster Ratings project.
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