Bad Vibes v. Good Results. Lynn Vavreck on the ’22 Midterms
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What's Feeding Calcification?
How can it be in a diverse country with more than 300 million people, the majority of voters have calcified around two parties that command roughly the same number of voters? I'd like to... Okay, you and I can figure this out right now. Let's crack it. So, because it hasn't always been this way. For a long time, Democrats outnumbered Republicans. We know why that is. The Southern Democrats, the South was solidly Democratic for a long time. And if you just imagine a figure in your head with time on the horizontal axis, and then the share of partisans over time, the Democrats are gonna come down,. as the South sorts out after the Voting Rights Act
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