Professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Publisher of @goodauth. Co-author of THE BITTER END (amazon.com/dp/0691213453?…).
Joined June 2018
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John Sides retweeted
May 21
Per the @PhillyInquirer, the Israeli-Palestinian issue loomed large in Tuesday's PA-3 primary. Does that mean that it is a top priority for Democrats or Democratic activists?
I use @YouGovAmerica data to show the answer is "no" in a new piece for @goodauth (link in the reply).
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John Sides retweeted
On April 10th, CEL Co-Director Alan Wiseman, PhD, was a keynote speaker at CIVICS CON, a civics convention in Midwest City, Oklahoma. There, he presented on effective lawmaking in state legislatures, with a focus on Oklahoma.
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John Sides retweeted
Apr 27
earlier this month @TuftsUniversity senior Miles Kendrick and I fielded a survey with @YouGovAmerica to better understand what acts people think are political violence. there are some points of agreement & some clear differences of opinion. link to our @goodauth write-up below
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John Sides retweeted
Structural model suggests the key is a Political Science PhD running things. But the PhD is from Rochester so no one cares about estimating the reduced form.
Vanderbilt University accepted 2.9% of regular-decision applicants looking to enroll in the freshman class next fall, signaling that one of the most selective colleges in the US has become even more competitive bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Apr 2
Good to see continued pushback against this narrative. See also:
goodauthority.org/news/maybe…
Apr 1
That young men are sexist and hate women and are increasingly conservative has become one of those stylized facts of public debate.
But is it even true?
Maibritt Henkel looked into the question for @TheArgumentMag, using our original polling:
theargumentmag.com/p/the-bro…
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Mar 30
Yes, and I'll add that women candidates are actually more electable in this meta-analysis of conjoint experiments: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
(With some variation across countries, parties, etc.)
Mar 30
Data on this is highly questionable outside of an n=2 (Harris Clinton). In the thousands of downballot and gubernatorial elections we have data for, there's no evidence women are less electable.
Female candidates do better with women and worse with men, but women vote more.
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John Sides retweeted
Mar 30
See chart & explanation from economist.com/united-states/….
Mar 30
Once you account for education and income simultaneously, wealthier people are more likely to be *Republican* in almost every education group.
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Once you account for education and income simultaneously, wealthier people are more likely to be *Republican* in almost every education group.
Mar 30
People with a high school diploma who make middle-class incomes are the most likely to be Republicans.
People with graduate degrees (regardless of income) are the least likely to align with the GOP.
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John Sides retweeted
Mar 30
Trying my hand at the delicate genre of accessible, opinionated prognostication by launching a Substack. First up: deception, delegation, and what opinion research might look like in the not-too-distant future. newinstruments.substack.com/…
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John Sides retweeted
Mar 25
there's a new comprehensive report out from @YouGovAmerica using CES data to plot trends in partisanship over the past two decades. i've got a piece up today in @goodauth summarizing some key findings. links to both in the reply!
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John Sides retweeted
Mar 23
I found this fantastic new paper (link below) that asks some really detailed questions about abortion.
People seem to have some pretty nuanced views.
When the mother's life is threatened, 2/3 favor no limit.
If it's a sex selection abortion, 38% are fully opposed.
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John Sides retweeted
The CEL is proud to announce the release of the 2023-2024 CO, HI, and DE legislative sessions SLES scores. For more information about the scores and to access them, please visit our website.
Link: tinyurl.com/mrudyyv6
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John Sides retweeted
Mar 9
1 thing about 2016 Trump supporters' foreign policy attitudes--I wrote about for 538 (URL 👇)--is that they weren't especially pro Iraq War back in 2007. But they were more likely to describe themselves as hawks.
They weren't so much isolationist as valuing shows of American 💪.
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 26
Why support for a free press may be less than we think— and what to do about it. This week’s Second Rough Draft newsletter
open.substack.com/pub/dickto…
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 26
4w ago I was a Claude Code skeptic. I'm not a coder. None of the use cases were relevant. I managed teams & projects, drowning in email & overdue reminders. So I tried creating tools that would help me and... holy crap.
Now I'm sharing the tools I built:
claudeblattman.com/
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 26
The 5th edition of Campaigns & Elections (or 9th if you count the midterm updates) is out & ready for Fall course adoption:
wwnorton.com/books/978132411…
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 17
This Guardian map suggests that Europe and others have started to vote more with China. A more careful look shows that the U.S. has changed; not the rest of the world. U.S. voting behavior has become so extreme that it practically breaks the scale of UN ideal point estimates.
Feb 17
The world isn’t moving away from the U.S.
The U.S. is moving away from the world.
@ErikVoeten explains in his latest piece that data shows most countries haven’t changed. The U.S. has.
Read: goodauthority.org/news/the-w…
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 13
Trump's first year in office saw a rapid decline in GOP affiliation, erasing the advantage in net partisanship that had endured during the Biden term.
Data from @gallup.
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John Sides retweeted
Feb 12
Women in Congress are wealthier than men in Congress.
A new article looks at nearly 40 years of financial disclosures from members of Congress.
See the data in the latest article from @johnmsides: goodauthority.org/news/women…
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John Sides retweeted
Hanlon's Razor wins again. The supposed "suppression" of TikTok influencers' posts about Minneapolis was a product of an Oracle server outage, not political manipulation
Feb 4
We tracked public TikToks containing keywords like "ICE," "Alex Pretti," "Renee Good," "Trump," and "Epstein" over time. There was a big drop - but it hit everything, political and non-political alike. "Recipe" and "Oscar" posts fell off too.
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