Media obsessing over whether a few thousand people will vote none of the above in Michigan— yet almost a third will vote against Trump in SC and they call it an overwhelming victory

Plurality of Americans Support Removing Trump from Presidential Ballots Due to Insurrection Clause
(Tatishe Nteta Ray La Raja Alex Theodoridis Jesse Rhodes UMass Poll)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240208

With the U.S. Supreme Court weighing whether states can remove Trump from their ballots based upon the 14th Amendment's 'insurrection clause,' our latest UMass Poll shows Americans deeply polarized by party on the issue...

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my University of Massachusetts colleague Alex Theodoridis discussing findings of @UmassPoll of former members of Congress in both parties who overwhelmingly do not tolerate illiberal acts of recent years, and support healthy democratic norms #KFConvos #KetteringFoundation

“The average voter needs to hear, the average citizen needs to hear—from elites on their own side—that political violence isn’t okay.” — Alex Theodoridis #KFConvos #KetteringFoundation

Fantastic, thought-provoking piece from Chuck Todd NBC News on our FMC UMass Poll of former members of Congress...

Chuck Todd: How elected officials are gaslighting America nbcnews.com/politics/elect…

The unfolding of the 🇺🇸 2024 campaign.
High-level panel at IFRI, with David Shor, Ray La Raja, Blandine Chelini-Pont and Anne-Lorraine Bujon.

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Au programme : trois panels de 9h30 à 16h30 autour d'experts de haut niveau ⤵️
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The vast majority (84%) of the former members of Congress we surveyed are concerned about the possibility of violence related to Election 2024. UMass Poll

Nearly 1/2 of former members indicate that they or their families received threats during their time in office. About 70% of women, African-American & Latino former members report such threats, & the frequency of threats is higher for members who served more recently. UMass Poll

🧵MASSive new UMass Poll FMC survey of nearly 300 former members of Congress is out today, featuring some fascinating results on political violence, Trump, January 6, and more. UMass Amherst Department of Political Science at UMass Amherst SBS UMass Amherst

usafmc.org/survey-results

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since it's apparently open access week, i just want to again express my gratitude to the Hewlett Foundation who supported open access to my University of Michigan Press book w/ Ray La Raja, Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…

This is important piece by Edsall on how to think about the next phase of political reforms. We should be shoring up party organizations to improve their capacity to gatekeep against renegades and mitigate extremism. Here he talks about $$, but this is true for nominations too.

a decade ago, Americans in the manufacturing, construction, and transportation/warehousing were more likely to identify as Democrats than Republicans. that has definitively changed

this is a great bit of analysis...something i've been thinking about much more recently

Nearly 8 in 10 Republicans believe the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. 63% say it should always be a Christian nation. Among Democrats, just 31% & 19%, respectively, agree. (Fun fact: Jefferson was best described as a Deist.) UMass Poll

🧵As America marks Juneteenth, new UMass Poll data finds stark partisan divides on race in the United States & even on the holiday itself. UMass Amherst Department of Political Science at UMass Amherst

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Just 13% of Republicans Support Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday. (Tatishe Nteta Alex Theodoridis Ray La Raja @JesseRhodesPolsci UMass Poll) More: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/230618