Probably the better lesson of this Glenn Miller Biden Voter story is that it's very VERY hard to draw meaningful lessons from the account of a random person you talk to at an event. I guarantee you there's someone out there that was full Trump Train from 2015 to 2020 ...
2/ and now they're demanding the Senate pass the full $3.5 T reconciliation bill. So yeah, that person's out there. But they are not really very representative of anything. Usually it's just a way for the reporter, intentionally or unintentionally, to give an example of ...
3/ what's mostly their preconceived notion. Not always. If you really talk to a lot of people you can start picking up commonalities. And then you use one or two. But if that's the case the single one you pick shouldn't end up being pretty much demonstrably intentionally ...
4/ misleading on the part of the voter. I take that as an example that your reporting may not have been that deep. Maybe you just got unlucky. It happens. But in that case do a better correction.
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