# Democratic Debates 7/30 & 7/31

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**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democratic-debates-7-30-7-31/837867 "2019-07-30T13:07:55Z")\
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I think my point still stands. If a significant number of people weren’t paying attention, we wouldn’t have seen the bumps and troughs that happened after the last debate. I don’t think they are super important, polling changes seem mostly transient, but a wide group of people must be paying attention. Otherwise, we must assume that pollsters are only contacting a minority that tends to be of the type recently described as “woke Twitter.”

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