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Did Trump win because his name came first in key states?

Posted on February 27, 2017April 17, 2017 by Dept. of Communication
2016 Presidential Ballot

Jon Krosnick says there is a human tendency to lean towards the first name listed on the ballot and that has caused increases on average of about three percentage points for candidates, across lots of races and states and years.

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