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Could There (Finally) Be a Backlash Against Domestic Surveillance?
There has been a lot of conversation about Glenn Greenwald’s story showing that National Security Agency is regularly collecting information about millions of... Read »
Why the ‘Permission Structure’ Makes Obama Smart (and Too Many Pundits Dumb)
It’s really extraordinarily pleasing to watch a terribly misinformed view of presidential power finally get its comeuppance. Various political scientists—Brendan... Read »
What If the Democrats Had Passed an Assault Weapons Ban in 2009-2010?
Via email, Pat Egan emails his thoughts on that counterfactual question: If the Democrats controlled the House right now, there’d be an assault weapons ban on... Read »
Will There Be Gun Control Legislation?
Jon Chait is pessimistic. Jon Bernstein perhaps less so. Alec MacGillis even less so. Here is my two cents: First, this shift in public opinion is worth mentioning: More... Read »
Changing Frames and Changing Public Opinion about Gun Laws
To begin, here are several findings about public opinion and gun control: Support for gun control in the abstract has declined, even as many specific gun control... Read »
The Perils of Democrats’ Euphoria, or Why the 2012 Election Is Not a Realignment
After the 2004 election, commentator Michael Lind wrote: Karl Rove is an evil political genius, but he is a political genius. As he hoped, 2004 was a realigning... Read »
Mapping Romney and Obama Field Offices
As has been widely reported, the number of Obama field offices exceeds the number of Romney field offices. To visualize this, Brian Law, a political science Ph.D.... Read »
The Track Record of Pre-Election Polls (in 2 Graphs)
How trustworthy are this year’s presidential polls? On Monday, November 5, will they be able to tell us who is likely to win the election? We’ll know soon enough,... Read »
How Hurricane Sandy Could Matter on Election Day
I’ll speak to three possibilities, just for starters: 1) Sandy hurts Obama. As Larry Bartels wrote about a few months ago, incumbent presidents can be punished... Read »
What Company’s Employees Gave the Most to Obama and Romney?
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