Do polls shape opinion?

Audio 29:30

Addicted to polls.

(AP: JPP)

By: Philippe Lecaplain

1 min

The presidential election will take place in 11 weeks and then, at the beginning of the summer, there will be the general election.

Suffice to say that the campaign announces many polls.

They are already very regular.

So and so competes with so and so.

Another is credited with next to nothing.

This one would get so many percentages of votes when he is not yet officially a candidate.

And what would happen in the second round depending on the configuration of the duel?

Etc., etc.

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Some are wary of these polls.

Others put up with it, not to mention those who rejoice in it when it is favorable to them.

While on RFI, you will often hear about these opinion studies, now is the time to form your own opinion.

Do polls shape opinion?

This is the debate of the day on RFI.

With : 

- Frédéric Micheau, 

deputy general manager of

,  author of the book 

- Bruno Cautrès 

political scientist, CNRS researcher at

(Sciences Po Political Research Center)

- Daniel Gaxie

, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, author of the note

 (Gabriel Péri Foundation, 2020). 

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