John Sides
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@johnmsides
Professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Publisher of @goodauth. Co-author of THE BITTER END (https://t.co/S984rgq1Yq?…).
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/…
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-bros-are…
Apologies for another ghastly ggplot, but you can see that within race-education groups, the highest-income voters are the Trumpiest, and that having a union member in the household increases Dem vote share by ~10 % pts. Similar effect to adding one tier of education 12/n
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.
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.
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-world…
