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G. Elliott Morris
Extras from my work on public opinion, elections, and democracy. Excerpts from my book STRENGTH IN NUMBERS and thoughts about the next one...
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The debate over the future of the Democratic Party is missing a key finding from political science 📊 October 10, 202112 Oct 2021 • 7 min read • 5 3This is a free weekly edition of my personal newsletter. If you like it, please share it. If you want to read more of my work on elections, public opinion, and democracy, consider a subscription to th...
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What education polarization and political arithmetic can tell us about 2022 — and the next decade09 Oct 2021 • < 1 min read • 5 1Happy Saturday, subscribers! Ezra Klein has written a great column for the New York Times Opinion section this week on the ongoing debate among Democratic strategists (and on Twitter) over how they sh...
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The space between us threatens to swallow us whole07 Oct 2021 • < 1 min read • 4 2Americans are growing further apart, with no real stop in sight. It is not so much our (asymmetric!) policy or ideological polarization that concerns me today. Much of the issue-based divide between p...
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Five books that taught me a lot about politics—and people06 Oct 2021 • 3 min read • 11 1Happy Tuesday to you all from sunny western Nevada, where the air is crisp and beer is crisper. I am on vacation this week, hence the lack of an email last Sunday, but am sending a short dispatch betw...
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What people are missing about the state of the polls—and the polling models 📊 September 26, 202127 Sep 2021 • 9 min read • 4 2This is a free weekly edition of my personal newsletter. If you like it, please share it. If you want to read more of my work on polling and democracy, consider a subscription to the blog. I write pri...
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Factionalism and electoral authoritarianism are the biggest threats to American democracy today25 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 5 4Source: Unsplash.com Democratic decline starts when one party refuses to play by the agreed-upon rules. Accelerating downturn ends either when forces for good reform institutions and cut off illiberal...
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More evidence that polls are pretty good, actually — maybe even better than you've been told21 Sep 2021 • < 1 min read • 3 0The Pew Research Center published another useful defense of the polls yesterday afternoon, this time showing that self-reported covid-19 vaccination rates in surveys from 19 different polling organiza...
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Media coverage of California's recall election highlights big issues with popular poll aggregation models14 Sep 2021 • 9 min read • 4 0Noise When I was a kid we had this dusty, boxy, grey television in our dark, carpeted living room. We didn’t grow up with satellite or cable so we’d spend a lot of time searching for public access pro...
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