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by acituan 2131 days ago
> social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate

Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This phenomenon has been academically researched and documented under the name “preference falsification” with many past examples. If anyone is interested the 1995 book “Private Truths, Public Lies” is on this research.
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sukilot 2131 days ago
Pollsters know about preference falsification and try to model it.
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acituan 2131 days ago
No doubt they would try, but their prediction is bound to be at best as good as predicting the preference without asking the preference, which makes it profiling and not polling anymore. And as OP suggests, they failed at this spectacularly.
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