Categorizing the American Voter: Evidence from 60,000 Self-Reports

• In Event: Advances in Measuring Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We analyze survey responses about vote choice including open-ended and close-ended questions from 60,000 Americans. This is a novel application of LLM text classification with fine-tuning at scale in political science.

Authors

• Matt Blyth, Yale University

• Alan Gerber, Yale University

• Gregory A. Huber, Yale University

• Mackenzie Lockhart, Yale University

• Itamar Yakir, Yale University