Political strategist Mark McKinnon explains how candidates use the art of storytelling to help swing elections. Read more »
Republican incumbents beware: There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear
In times of political turmoil, it’s always good to be able to reach back to the 1960s for some Buffalo Springfield lyrics, and this is political turmoil. Both parties are seeing the conventional wisdom of their nomination fight (Republicans) and nomination coronation (Democrats) turned upside down, not so much by […] Read more »
Support for gun control isn’t dead, new poll shows. It just matters how you frame the question.
Two years ago, immediately after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., poll after poll showed broad support for new gun control measures. … Today, gun control seems to be on the run. Gun rights is winning the day. An oft-cited proof of this new order is […] Read more »
Why the GOP Can’t Get No Satisfaction
… In the United Kingdom’s general election, Prime Minister Cameron won on a vision of a dynamic, competitive Britain as a land of future opportunity for working families. Miliband was promising them only a return to the past: 1970s-style rent control, re-nationalization of some services, and energy price controls were, […] Read more »
Persuading Americans to act on climate change
… What kinds of appeals does the U.S. public find persuasive on climate change? … In an article (open access) recently published in Research and Politics, we evaluated climate change frames with a survey experiment. We assigned a diverse sample of 330 participants recruited by a survey market research firm […] Read more »
Is the Environment a Moral Cause?
ACCORDING to a recent poll, a large majority of Americans, and roughly half of Republicans, say they support governmental action to address global warming. … How could it be that so many Republicans view global warming as a problem, but so few on the right are pressuring the government to […] Read more »