Joe Biden was more popular than Donald Trump. Republicans should have nominated Joe Biden. Hopefully they learn their lesson and nominate Joe Biden in 2024. (Note: this is what seems to happen in New York judicial elections.)

Crazy Crab!

Every Catholic in America when Biden started reciting “On Eagles’ Wings”

The Biden mandate (if a president ever really has a mandate) is not for moderate policies or progressive policies. It’s for moderation in process and tone which will lead to moderate policies whether or not that’s what people want.

Tim Alberta John Berman It’s interesting to see a group of people draw the worst possible conclusions about whom they perceive to be their own voters. I know a fair number of Trump voters. They’re not generally yelling about fake ballots.

In early 2016, we found some evidence of social desirability in saying you weren’t voting for Trump. This time... not so much. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

The online labor market, Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), is used in social sciences. But what about the characteristics of individuals who participate in studies posted on AMT? Read more by Dr. David Johnson of University of Central Missouri & John Barry Ryan of Department of Political Science @ SBU: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/so…

I wrote a @monkeycageblog piece!My research finds there is social pressure for Republicans to say the election was fraudulent and that we shouldn’t accept the election results.

If Congressional leadership put out a bipartisan statement calling on Trump to resign or be removed, support would go even higher. But among Republicans it would be around 40-50%. Republican leaders aren’t afraid of dividing the country; they are afraid of dividing their party.

We started this almost five years ago; I think it is one of the best papers I've worked on.

Congratulations to Hillary Style, a 2021 winner of the Milton Lodge Award for Graduate Student Research. Hillary’s work focuses on social expectations of political behavior (cc: Hillary K. Style).

.Yanna Krupnikov & John Barry Ryan's THE OTHER DIVIDE "sets the agenda for the next generation of work in American politics: do not dismiss or chastise the less engaged; instead, understand and value them." COMING SOON #AmericanPolitics #Polarization #Partisanship ow.ly/gvrZ50HeG6N

.Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien's "Information and Democracy" assesses the accuracy of media coverage, and measures its impact on citizens' policy preferences. Coming soon in the Communication, Society and Politics series ow.ly/jIKn50Hs19J

You can't expect to beat a team that played against #MAACSports opponents all year when you're just a Big 10 team.

Love seeing our Journal of Politics @[email protected] (with @stevenwwebster and Betsy Sinclair) online, fully formatted, and ready for the next issue. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

When does interpersonal communication lead to aggregate enlightenment? How can you run your own communication experiments? Read all about this in our new Cambridge University Press - Academic Element. More details in the thread below. It's free to download for a limited time: cambridge.org/core/elements/…

New Cambridge Element Constructing Political Expertise in the News by @kesearles Yanna Krupnikov John Barry Ryan Hillary K. Style out now! Read for free for 2 weeks ow.ly/g2v950MIEBM #cambridgeelements #politics

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Constructing Political Expertise in the News by @kesearles Yanna Krupnikov John Barry Ryan Hillary K. Style Free access available until 17 February ow.ly/g2v950MIEBM #cambridgeelements #politics

#FirstView from American Political Science Review - Selecting Out of “Politics”: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation - cup.org/3UJlynM - Eric Groenendyk, YANNA KRUPNIKOV, John Barry Ryan & Elizabeth C. Connors, PhD