Voters use left and right political labels as mental shortcuts, not strict policy matches. This mismatch was especially common among people who identified as right-leaning. The data showed that 43% of self-identified right-leaning voters actually supported mostly left-leaning policies.
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Voters use left and right political labels as mental shortcuts, not strict policy matches
A new study reveals that voters use "left" and "right" labels as mental shortcuts to guess a politician's stance. Surprisingly, many voters' own political identities do not actually match the specific policies they support.
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