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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

You're totally missing the point. If there isn't election coverage, marginally-engaged voters won't substitute it with policy coverage, as most of the studies you cite assume. Instead, they'll substitute it with TV, sports, video games, etc, reducing civic engagement. — PolitiTweet.org

this is completely backwards. meta-analysis by @alonzoizner shows that horserace coverage increases cynicism, de… https://t.co/vJ49Pphk8d

Posted May 10, 2019 Hibernated

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@mattyglesias @philipaklein The Sanders campaign had also, with varying degrees of explicitness, trumpeted the importance of the white working-class, which may have had the unintended side effect of softening the ground for Biden's electability argument. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, as an empirical matter, one probably needs to give a little bit of weight to the fact that elections from 2008 onward have generally featured quite high turnout by American standards (especially 2018, where it was off-the-charts high), despite a heavy horse-race focus. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 10, 2019 Hibernated