while an earnest Do-Right might freely admit ignorance about some political issues, real voters rarely do. When people are asked the same policy question a few months apart, they frequently give different answers—not because they’ve changed their minds, but because they’re making up answers on the spot, without remembering what they said last time.15 It is even easy to trick voters into explaining why they favor a policy, when in fact they recently said they opposed that policy.16
