Mike Crespin
@mikecrespin.bsky.social
Director and Curator, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma
Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma
Does anyone have a good matzoh ball soup recipe? My go to place back home closed.
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Does anyone have a good matzoh ball soup recipe? My go to place back home closed.
Local news is crazy. Leading is a story about the Trump Truth Social post followed by a hard hitting Super Bowl snack story.
February 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Local news is crazy. Leading is a story about the Trump Truth Social post followed by a hard hitting Super Bowl snack story.
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Life is lifeing at me pretty hard this week, messing up my usual writing schedule. But I did manage to join @nytimes.com's John Guida to discuss Backlash Presidents and what it tells us about Trump's second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Opinion | ‘It’s All Rooted in a Sense of Victimhood’: On Trump’s Backlash Presidency
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Life is lifeing at me pretty hard this week, messing up my usual writing schedule. But I did manage to join @nytimes.com's John Guida to discuss Backlash Presidents and what it tells us about Trump's second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
If anyone is interested in attending the Prairie Political Science Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta, Canada I can be persuaded to put together a panel. September 18–20. www.prairiepsa.com/conference/
February 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If anyone is interested in attending the Prairie Political Science Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta, Canada I can be persuaded to put together a panel. September 18–20. www.prairiepsa.com/conference/
This is who runs this account.
February 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is who runs this account.
This week the Carl Albert Center kicked off the Public Service Leadership Program matching students interested in public service careers with mentors in those jobs. The goals are to help students learn about public service careers and keep OU talent in Oklahoma after they graduate. I'm excited.
January 31, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This week the Carl Albert Center kicked off the Public Service Leadership Program matching students interested in public service careers with mentors in those jobs. The goals are to help students learn about public service careers and keep OU talent in Oklahoma after they graduate. I'm excited.
It's wild to think that NY has steadily lost representation since 1940 when they were at 45 seats. PA has been losing since the 1910 round (36). Illinois also a steady loss from the 30s, with one hold from 1960-70. CA gained every year from statehood until 2010 (+1 in 2000, no change in 2010).
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
It's wild to think that NY has steadily lost representation since 1940 when they were at 45 seats. PA has been losing since the 1910 round (36). Illinois also a steady loss from the 30s, with one hold from 1960-70. CA gained every year from statehood until 2010 (+1 in 2000, no change in 2010).
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Today the Supreme Court hears oral argument on state bans on transgender athletes. In our recent paper, Fiona Rodger and I find that the public distinguishes between different kinds of trans policies, but only about a quarter of Americans oppose those bans.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
January 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Today the Supreme Court hears oral argument on state bans on transgender athletes. In our recent paper, Fiona Rodger and I find that the public distinguishes between different kinds of trans policies, but only about a quarter of Americans oppose those bans.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Republican Study Committee is using AI to predict and I assume get around Byrd rule violations. Pretty interesting.
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The Republican Study Committee is using AI to predict and I assume get around Byrd rule violations. Pretty interesting.
My semiannual post that if you are looking for primary documents for a class, check out the American Congress Digital Archives Portal (congressarchives.org), and the Campaign Television Advertisement Project for presidential campaign ads (campaigntvads.org).
More documents here (bit.ly/4raCssr)
More documents here (bit.ly/4raCssr)
American Congress Digital Archives Portal
The American Congress Digital Archives Portal is a collaborative, non-partisan project that aggregates congressional archives held by multiple institutions and makes the archives available online.
congressarchives.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
My semiannual post that if you are looking for primary documents for a class, check out the American Congress Digital Archives Portal (congressarchives.org), and the Campaign Television Advertisement Project for presidential campaign ads (campaigntvads.org).
More documents here (bit.ly/4raCssr)
More documents here (bit.ly/4raCssr)
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i have a new article out in @psrm.bsky.social with Scott Blatte exploring respondent attentiveness in the Cooperative Election Study. we find fairly low rates of inattentiveness but our intervention failed to nudge respondents to pay more attention (thread)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Surviving the screens: the problem of hidden inattentive respondents in online surveys | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Surviving the screens: the problem of hidden inattentive respondents in online surveys
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
i have a new article out in @psrm.bsky.social with Scott Blatte exploring respondent attentiveness in the Cooperative Election Study. we find fairly low rates of inattentiveness but our intervention failed to nudge respondents to pay more attention (thread)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm looking to update some readings for my state politics(ish) class. Is there anything relatively new related to term limits, polarization, budgets, and maybe legislative professionalism? This is an upper division class where students intern in the state legislature.
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I'm looking to update some readings for my state politics(ish) class. Is there anything relatively new related to term limits, polarization, budgets, and maybe legislative professionalism? This is an upper division class where students intern in the state legislature.
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RIP to Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who unexpectedly passed. Unexpected deaths in a narrowly-divided Congress have an impact on policy outcomes, as @NicholasNapolio and I show in our research on past Congresses with unexpected deaths. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda - Volume 116 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
January 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
RIP to Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who unexpectedly passed. Unexpected deaths in a narrowly-divided Congress have an impact on policy outcomes, as @NicholasNapolio and I show in our research on past Congresses with unexpected deaths. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Apparently they only read about McKinley's tariff and not some of the other stuff he did.
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Apparently they only read about McKinley's tariff and not some of the other stuff he did.
Area dad doesn’t understand why it takes so long to leave the house.
December 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Area dad doesn’t understand why it takes so long to leave the house.
I am hard to shop for so I asked for a subscription to the Onion. I’m a little disappointed it no longer features the drunk of the week.
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I am hard to shop for so I asked for a subscription to the Onion. I’m a little disappointed it no longer features the drunk of the week.
When you fill up your bookshelves but don’t want to get rid of books you need to make new ones. Up and over the door is a fun build.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
When you fill up your bookshelves but don’t want to get rid of books you need to make new ones. Up and over the door is a fun build.
We have a pen that signed the voting rights act.
Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.
I live in the heart of California gold country. One of the richest mines ever in CA is nearby. Opened circa 1860 closed 1942. A local foundation has preserved the records on site. I know not a stitch has been digitized and am confident no more than 2 pro historians have ever been in there.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We have a pen that signed the voting rights act.
It turns out my chop saw stand on an old dresser lasted approximately 8 years and .9 trips from the shop to the house and back.
December 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It turns out my chop saw stand on an old dresser lasted approximately 8 years and .9 trips from the shop to the house and back.
I’ve been reading one presidential biography a year in order. Here is my 2025 read.
December 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’ve been reading one presidential biography a year in order. Here is my 2025 read.
At a kid’s birthday party and just realized all my kiddo’s friends are going from six to seven. What a time to be alive.
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
At a kid’s birthday party and just realized all my kiddo’s friends are going from six to seven. What a time to be alive.
My only contribution to the academic hiring discourse is that people who do the hiring say things all the time that they shouldn’t. This is less true now but more so in the recent past. There is a reason why we have to go through training now.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My only contribution to the academic hiring discourse is that people who do the hiring say things all the time that they shouldn’t. This is less true now but more so in the recent past. There is a reason why we have to go through training now.
This is wild. Impact factor of 1 but acceptance rate of 10%.
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is wild. Impact factor of 1 but acceptance rate of 10%.
It's worth remembering that if Johnson goes down after after a midterm loss by the Republicans, electing a minority leader is much easier since you do not need a majority of the chamber to win the position.
it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's worth remembering that if Johnson goes down after after a midterm loss by the Republicans, electing a minority leader is much easier since you do not need a majority of the chamber to win the position.
New candidate for worst chart just dropped
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New candidate for worst chart just dropped