Saturday subscribers-only thread: If you give people money, will they vote for you? Maybe a little!Happy Saturday, subscribers! The fall has arrived here in Northern Virginia and I’m enjoying writing this thread on the airy balcony my wife and…
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Finally, we have evidence pointing to a causal link between Trump support and covid-19 behaviorsStudies of surveys with multiple repeat interviews have taken us beyond speculation with cross-sectional polls and geographic observations
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Popular economic policy proposals are not enough to save the Democrats 📊 October 17, 2021Voters care about too many things for "economic populism" alone to remake class politics and save the Democratic Party
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Saturday subscribers-only thread on economic populism, the Build Back Better Act, and 2022Happy Saturday, subscribers! Washington is still stuck debating Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and the corresponding reconciliation bill i…
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Does it matter if a majority of Americans say their financial situation is good today?This shoulg be obvious, but polls don't always tell the full story
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The debate over the future of the Democratic Party is missing a key finding from political science 📊 October 10, 2021Because of partisan mega-identities and affective polarization, messaging and position-taking matter much less than they used to
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What education polarization and political arithmetic can tell us about 2022 — and the next decade Class polarization is a long-term trend in US politics and abroad. It is rocking our electoral institutions
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The space between us threatens to swallow us wholeSocial distance, affective polarization, and partisan mega-identities are helping to unravel the fabric of American democray
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Five books that taught me a lot about politics—and peopleFive is an arbitrary number, of course. I reserve the right to append this list later.
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Saturday October 2, 2021Happy Saturday, subscribers! I am taking the weekend off. I am out of town for a family friend’s funeral then heading to a long-overdue vacation…
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What people are missing about the state of the polls—and the polling models 📊 September 26, 2021There are two types of errors leading the poll-watchers astray, and it's mostly not their fault
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Factionalism and electoral authoritarianism are the biggest threats to American democracy todayThe ultimate course to curbing the power of nefarious, anti-democratic factions runs through a radical revision of our founding documents
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