For more than a decade, the Affordable Care Act has been the Republican Party’s nemesis. … But the coronavirus pandemic’s fast-moving destruction has pushed Republicans to rely on Barack Obama’s signature law to respond to the crisis, even taking action to strengthen it. … Our research shows that this about-face […] Read more »
Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class Anymore
For decades now, major left-wing parties throughout the West have been bleeding support from the working-class voters whose interests they claim to represent. In the mid-20th century, a voter’s socioeconomic position strongly predicted his or her partisan allegiance: In Britain, France, and the United States, voters with low incomes and […] Read more »
The return of the red state blue state fallacy
… I wonder how the NYT reporter picked these particular people to interview. It makes you realize how many reportorial degrees of freedom are involved in writing a story. By choosing who to interview, you can create whatever impression you want. … The uncontrolled nature of person-on-the-street interviews is one […] Read more »
The Relation between Media Consumption and Misinformation at the Outset of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
A US national probability-based survey during the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 spread in the US showed that, above and beyond respondents’ political party, mainstream broadcast media use (e.g., NBC News) correlated with accurate information about the disease’s lethality, and mainstream print media use (e.g., the New York Times) correlated […] Read more »
It’s about the fundamentals, whatever those will be
What’s going to happen in the November 2020 presidential election? Obviously, that’s on the minds of quite a few political observers these days, and it would be even if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic. And some are questioning whether the pandemic will scramble the election and everything […] Read more »
Trump Reaches Back Into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks
President Trump has chosen his pandemic re-election strategy. He is set on unifying and reinvigorating the groups that were crucial to his 2016 victory: racially resentful whites, evangelical Christians, gun activists, anti-vaxxers and wealthy conservatives. Tying his re-election to the growing anti-lockdown movement, Trump is encouraging a resurgence of what […] Read more »