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From Stanford University:
This is why the media puts new voting polls in our faces every day, because Hillary needs all the help she can get. And the media have shown themselves to be completely biased and unfair in their coverage of political elections.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-polls-influence-behavior
A new working paper by Neil Malhotra of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and David Rothschild of Microsoft Research, shows that some voters do, in fact, switch sides in an effort to feel accepted and to be part of a winning team.
The researchers asked a selected group of voters to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics. When the test subjects learned that a large number of experts favored a position, opinions shifted by 11.3%. But the "opinions of people like me" changed opinions by just 6.2%, while a general poll saying that a majority of people favored one side or the other moved the needle by 8.1%.
This is why the media puts new voting polls in our faces every day, because Hillary needs all the help she can get. And the media have shown themselves to be completely biased and unfair in their coverage of political elections.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-polls-influence-behavior