Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But Democrats literally do not have the option of totally blowing off the median voter's opinions and then trying to white knuckle it to victory with 47 percent of the vote. With that strategy they would just lose everything, all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is why I asked my original question about estimated magnitudes to Winship — “this will lead to an unacceptably large reduction in labor supply” is a coherent view but it requires empirical support. The real position appears to actually be that poverty per se isn’t bad. — PolitiTweet.org