Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You can also see this in the conservative movement’s attitude toward same-sex marriage which was a fundamental threat to the stability of the country when saying so was helpful to the cause of regressive tax policy but got dropped like a rock the moment it became a hindrance. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The paper of the midterms is Bafumi, Erickson, and Wleizen (2009) which shows that contrary to what you might think the predictable backlash against the president’s party in the midterms cannot be explained as a function of the president’s popularity. https://t.co/oQOctFNeSK https://t.co/24wAo9txk2 — PolitiTweet.org