See correction Tweet thread, below.
… Our research, which we’re reporting here for the first time, shows an upswing in the past few months in the number of Americans—both Democrats and Republicans—who said they think violence would be justified if their side loses the upcoming presidential election. …
All of us have been involved, separately and eventually together, in surveying and researching Americans’ political attitudes and engagement. Late last year, we noticed an uptick in the number of respondents saying they would condone violence by their own political party, and we decided to combine our data sets to get as much information as possible on this worrisome trend. We were also monitoring another question: Would you condone violence if the other party’s candidate wins the presidential election?
While the pool of respondents between our datasets is slightly different, our questions have had the same wording. Here’s what we’ve found: CONT.
Larry Diamond, Lee Drutman, Tod Lindberg, Nathan P. Kalmoe & Lilliana Mason, Politico Magazine
Correction thread. tl;dr violent partisan views are rising a bit, but not by double-digits. This is a 1st effort to clarify last week’s Politico article w/ new, better data, plus an editor’s note on the article. I won’t post the link to avoid giving those #s more attention. 1/ pic.twitter.com/pbZ2hKUrGy
— Nathan Kalmoe (@NathanKalmoe) October 9, 2020