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Saturday subscribers-only thread on Republican support for climate policyHappy Saturday! This week, a tracking poll from YouGov that has been running since at least 2009 found Americans rate climate change as the seco…
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The politicization of public opinion surveys has hurt their ability to reach a representative portrait of Americans. But surveys are still useful, desp…
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Blaming government decision-makers is easy, but actually changing individuals' behavior is hard — and predicting covid spikes even harder
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Democratic support for constitutional "hardball" is a signal of broader democratic distress
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High optimism about the future is one way life is returning to normal
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Saturday subscribers-only thread on redefining bipartisanship Happy Saturday! It’s good to be back in your inbox again. Let’s keep this newsletter short and focused on a very important topic: using polls to…
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Donald Trump brought more ethnically antagonist voters into the Republican Party, and those voters are particularly anti-democratic
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A short vacation dispatch
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One picture and a request for links
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Saturday subscribers-only thread on life returning to normalHappy Saturday! Pollsters released several national surveys about life this week that can be placed under the broad umbrella of “reassuring” or …
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What is popular with a true majority of people is not always electorally feasible in a system with counter-majoritarian electoral institutions.
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Saturday subscribers-only thread for June 12, 2021Yes, we’re doing this on Saturday now! My hope is the change will leave more time for people to engage with each other, and that I won’t clutter…
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