Though President Obama won reelection decisively, he won’t have much time to celebrate. Many of the nation’s problems — stimulating employment, reducing the deficit, controlling health-care costs, and improving the quality of education — are very serious, and some of them must be addressed with great urgency. And none of […] Read more »
American Voters: Plenty of Opinions, But Without a Clue
… American voters are deeply polarized but at the same time greatly overestimate their own political intellect. “We predict that asking people to explain how a policy works will make them aware of how poorly they understand the policy,” [Philip] Fernbach writes, “which will cause them to subsequently express more […] Read more »
That Guy Won? Why We Knew It All Along
… Amid the many uncertainties of next Tuesday’s presidential election lies one sure thing: Many people will feel in their gut that they knew the result all along. … Most will also have a ready-made argument for why it was inevitable that Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama, won — displaying […] Read more »