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My 90 min flight from MSP to Chicago turned into me being stuck in the DC airport until tomorrow. Definitely not making the conference

He is pretty awesome. I feel lucky to call him mine.

Recent research from Enders and Thornton, which shows that educational polarization is a phenomenon among exclusively White Americans, supports this claim.

I listened to the podcast this morning. A big part of the discussion about young voters also hinged on the gender gap. Shor’s data showed that among young voters it was real and enormous. The gap for voters under thirty was 23 points, over thirty half that.

The wonders of partisan evaluations!

Absolutely, we developed a theory of asymmetrical party politics rooted in the symbolic-operational disconnect in public opinion, which forces the Democrats to build their coalitional politics around a programmatic policy agenda, while Republicans build their using appeals to ideological identity.

Our piece in PoP explains this pbenomenon, which we expand upon in the book Adam and I are writing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is this data publicly available? I have a couple of students interested in black political behavior.

Ah, yes. That would be the work around. Thanks!

How is this not an obvious violation of the first Amendment’s freedom of association? The federal government cannot dictate who you associate with peacefully.

I’ve thought about this paper multiple times over the last six months.

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Yep! Exactly right. We cite them in our paper.

I’d love your thoughts on it. We are turning this paper into a book. We’ve written four of six empirical chapters and hope to get under contract this year

Which would make sense because the party out of the White House always seems like it is operating in a power vacuum. Congressional leadership can sometimes fill that void if strong enough, as was the case under Pelosi or Gingrich, but they often can’t.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...