Hurricane Sandy's Predictably Small Effect On The Election
In case you hadn't heard, there was a big storm right before the election. Despite no real evidence, pundits, and even some scholars, have ...
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Romney Relies On Race To Attack Obama On Welfare
Mitt Romney has stuck with his theme of attacking President Obama over "gutting" the work requirement for welfare. In an often-aired television commercial, Romney's ...
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The Surprising and Symbolic Power of Unions
Unions may be powerful in shaping opinion, even if their political influence is on the wane. It may seem like a long time ago ...
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Interpreting Gay Marriage Poll Results: Don’t do the Bump and Wiggle
In 1960, Richard Neustadt wrote Presidential Power, in which he told students of politics that presidential power was the “power to persuade.” Neustadt wasn’t ...
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Recent Changes in Support for Same-Sex Marriage: Is There a Difference Across Races?
YouGov is in the field each week on Saturday mornings with a nationwide, 1,000-person survey. Today, we're going to look at the surveys before ...
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Guns, Public Opinion, and Trayvon Martin
Tragedies inevitably raise political questions. Politics, despite its tawdry reputation, is essentially a competition over matters of fundamental importance. So, when the story of ...
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Success, Faith, and Politics
Previously, I wrote about the divide between liberals and conservatives over the value of college: liberals are far more likely than conservatives (by 20 ...
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The Politicized Value of College
When Rick Santorum chided President Obama for encouraging all Americans to go to college, he received widespread criticism, but it may still have been ...
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Fighting Over What's Real: Why Food Stamp Association Could Be Critical
Leading up to the 2010 election, Model Politics published several posts about the distorted view typical Americans have of those who live around them ...
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Do Americans Care about Politics?
We expected that most Americans would place a high value on the party of their Congressmen...55% of respondents they would not pay even $1 ...
