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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

"Moderates = more electable, other things held equal" is backed up by a lot of political science research. It's not settled science, maybe things have changed, but there's a lot of empirical & theoretical evidence for it, more so than for most assumptions the news media makes. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think if your politics coverage takes as a given that moderate=more electable, you need to at least provide some… https://t.co/0xVBog3D2Z

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I think my least-favorite take of the night is the one that's like "Why did CNN make the candidates fight?!?". Well, it's a debate, the candidates are supposed to fight, and most of the arguments were pretty darn substantive too. — PolitiTweet.org

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By contrast, the assumption that white men are more electable does not have that sort of empirical backing, in my reasonably well-informed opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

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