New Yorker: Here's Why Polls Might Be 'ruining Democracy'

They're cited by candidates in stump speeches. They determine which candidates make the debates. They control where candidates stand on those debates' stages.

As they gain seemingly ever-increasing importance, are political polls creating a negative feedback loop that is actually making America less democratic?

In a New Yorker article out on Monday, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore suggests that major errors in the ways polls are conducted may actually be providing an incomplete and inaccurate picture of the race — at a time when polls are having an increasingly large effect on the shape of modern politics and political coverage.

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