[EM] Juho, optimists.

[Michael Ossipoff]

Juho says:

 

Voters are also optimists in the sense that they estimate the winning
chances of their favourites to be higher than they actually are.

 

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Where does Juho get that?

 

American voters pessimistically believe what they've been told by their tv.
They believe that it makes no difference what or who their favorite it,
because there are only two viable parties, the Democrats and the
Republicans, the two choices. In voters' perception, their favorites are
irrelevant, and voting for them can only serve to take needed votes away
from the Democrat.

 

And if some voters haven't even given any consideration to what they'd
actually like more, it's because they've been taught that that's a dangerous
thing to look at, because it can make you waste your vote. In fact, to even
consider that you might like something better than what the Republocrats
offer and do, is taboo. If you think that something else would be better
than the Republocrats, then you'd better not admit it, because everyone else
knows that it isn't so. You don't want everyone to know how wrong you are,
do you? Do you want your friends to know that you're outside the tv's range
of acceptable positions?

 

The media's influence is amazing. No one wants to doubt what they're told
everyone else believes. 

 

So no, voters are pessimists in the sense that the underestimate the
likedness of what they themselves like. Approval's first election count
results will show what others really like.

 

Mike Ossipoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

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