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I. A. Lewis and William Schneider, in Public Opinion (April-May 1982), % American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Public opinion pollsters called the 1980 presidential election a "horse race" right up to election day. Yet a "closet Reagan vote" gave the Republican a comfortable 10 percent margin of victory. The public, it appears, concealed its intentions.
Pollsters have been aware of the problem for years,...