Perception Versus Reality
Politics Brief
English - August 28, 2018 20:46 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDaily News News News Commentary wnyc midterm midterms election news new york nyc jersey politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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According to a new study, Americans' perceptions of the opposing political party tend to skew far from the truth. What's more, people's perceptions of their own political parties aren't much better. Perry Bacon, senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, wrote about the study for his column “Secret Identity.” He spoke with On The Media about why the gulf between perception and reality might be so wide.