Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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What's Folich and Graham Doing?
In 20 17, there is a special election in montana where the house candidate, the republican house candidate, gregg gian forte, assaulted a journalist. A political scientist named milans vullek and his cathor matthew graham looked at granular local level election returns to see if that event caused people to change the way they voted. And what they found was that there wasn't that kind of penalty at all. When you have a choice between two parties, ritn one your values on a whole slate of issues, you are almost always going to vote for that party. Almost nobody cares about neutral ideas like the rule of law or the freedom of the press more
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