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Saturday, March 28, 2020

He's just not that into us

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John Sides had a piece in the Washington Post called "Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about 'people like me.'"...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Amendment

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An idea for a constitutional amendment that occasionally comes up is to make all citizens (not just "natural-born" citizens) eligi...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

The Era of Bad Feelings

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Since the early 1950s, the Gallup Poll has asked people to rate various public figures on a scale of +5 to -5.  During most Presidential ele...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Trump and Sanders

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A little more than a week ago, I read a number of articles saying that Bernie Sanders's run this year was like Trump's in 2016--a po...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Unanswered and mostly unasked

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I have a book on public opinion coming out in September 2020.  Although there is a lot of good research on public opinion, some of which I ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Bubbles

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Many people say that Americans increasingly live in "bubbles" in which they don't encounter people whose political views diffe...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Diversion

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I have a post coming about the popular idea that certain kinds of people live in "bubbles" in which all of their friends share the...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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