Are you a UT Austin student needing GOV 310L? Try the online version offered this spring w/ Daron R. Shaw & Eric L McDaniel + expert guests. More info: liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/services… Sample: Professor Shaw discusses the news media with Texas Tribune's Ross Ramsey youtu.be/Uf7Y4H2m5Dk

Did y’all see Teixeira’s The Washington Post article about the myth of voter turnout? My new book with John Petrocik, “The Turnout Myth” (Oxford) makes much the same point, offering a broad theoretical perspective on electoral participation and drawing on a range of historical data.

I’m pleased to announce my latest book, co-authored with Scott Althaus and Costas Panagopoulos, is now out and available from Oxford University Press! If you want to understand what’s happening this election cycle, you might want to pick it up (at OUP press or on Amazon).

On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer’s Role nyti.ms/2uewRorv5 r

Since 8/26, the Dodgers have played 75 regular season games. They are 29-46 (.387). Over a season, that’s 102 losses. 104 wins to 102 losses would be the most cataclysmic collapse in the history of US pro sports.