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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, December 7th, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown. Most Americans believe in free enterprise. Most Americans reject socialism and contrary to how we're portrayed in the media, most Americans are fairly tolerant of one another.

So says Tony Woodleaf, author of the new book, A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-governance.

Federalism, he argues, makes it easier to compromise in part because we're compromising with people

that we're more likely to know.

The book is available today.

Polsters got it wrong in 2016.

Polsters got it wrong in 2016, pollsters got it wrong in 2020, and you argue that that is, there is

potentially a motivation for why they are wrong. That's right.

Polsters come to their work with an ideological lens. They want to find ideology and they're very

disappointed in Americans when they don't find consistent hard left or hard right

ideology because that makes for a good narrative. So they misinterpret what they read. In many ways they make the

same mistake with Americans that the media made with Donald Trump, which is just

they took him literally but not seriously. I believe pollsters do that with the responses they get on their surveys.

So hard left and hard right, those are categories that mix up a lot of different people. Right.

Have pollsters made adjustments?

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