When asked if ppl would make someone a dictator for the US, 47% said no - but when I asked people to report their political leanings in *addition* to if they'd make someone a dictator, 60% said no.
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The first poll has 2k more votes. I'd imagine that skewed the results a little.
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Maybe people more likely to be risk-averse and say no to the first poll are people who skipped the second poll because they don’t like picking a “side”
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Maybe you’re missing people who don’t have a tribal affiliation and are then excluded from poll 2. Among the “No” voters in the first poll, perhaps you lost a lot of them by applying a criteria that they felt didn’t apply to them in poll 2. 40% lower turnout on 2nd one supports
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And this is an anonymous poll, with nothing to show off. Imagine if people had to actually tweet their response
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The variation in response rates the the two polls admit a number of other hypotheses. (Which is not to say yours is wrong.)
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I guess another explanation might be that introducing a question about affiliation might make some people less likely to participate - thus changing the balance of your overall sample, rather than changing how your sample behaves?
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