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In an election, the vote is the measure of popular support for a candidate/policy/platform. Democracy doesn't necessarily need polls.
I've found interesting some related essays by Jill Lepore, an American historian, on the advent of polling earlier in the 20th century:
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-t... - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/the-problems-i...
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In an election, the vote is the measure of popular support for a candidate/policy/platform. Democracy doesn't necessarily need polls.
I've found interesting some related essays by Jill Lepore, an American historian, on the advent of polling earlier in the 20th century:
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-t... - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/the-problems-i...