The bot introduces you to some interesting characters. Take the Floridian white man in his 40s who recently sprouted onto our feed. He says he’s conservative, but doesn’t feel like he fits with either party. He thinks women should always have the right to choose when to have an abortion, is pro-Obamacare, and wants the federal minimum wage to be $12 an hour. But curiously enough, he’s a Trump voter. Why? Well, he opposes the Clean Air Act — might he have a job in a fossil fuel industry and feel threatened by Democrats’ quick embrace of radical environmental policy in light of climate change?

Of course, it’s not possible to know through a survey. But just by getting a peek at a voter beyond his one ballot can inspire a much more humble reading of the electorate’s behavior.

You don’t need to look much further than the latest far-left-leaning Democratic debate to see how uniform policy preferences have become in our two-party system. The candidates’ reluctance to reject purity tests, as well as their attempts to avoid “getting ratioed” by their loud online base, often leads them to well-intentioned yet hard-line rhetoric and stances that are unrepresentative of even many Democratic voters.

As that party’s primary rages on this year, we may need reminders of people like the 59-year-old white woman from Massachusetts we came across who voted for Hillary Clinton three years ago but is a self-described conservative who doesn’t think women should always have a right to an abortion. Could a zinger at a town hall that puts down pro-life arguments earn a candidate plaudits online and on MSNBC, but make others like her feel ignored or vilified? Even for the unwaveringly pro-choice, it’s a politically handy question to keep in mind.