In New York, presidential candidates are alone in their own comfortable bubbles

Published April 14, 2016 This content is archived.

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The Los Angeles Times reports on the New York primaries and how presidential candidates operate in their own bubbles. The paper quotes James Campbell, a political scientist at UB. "Both conservatives and liberals are kind of cocooned, and I think they overestimate -- grossly overestimate -- how popular their own views are and therefore underestimate how important it is to compromise to get things done," he said.

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