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Say Hello to the Future Fightin’ Republican Liberals and Moderates of the...

By nearly all accounts, the Republicans looks set to take over the US House of Representatives in next week’s November 2010 general election. Nate Silver gives the Republicans an 80% chance to win....

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Dog Bites Man: Republicans in the 112th Will Be Very Conservative

My coauthor and friend Andrew Gelman, in the course of plugging my previous post about incoming Republican moderates and liberals in the 112th Congress, asks me: There’s only one thing I wonder about....

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112th Polarization Watch, Part 2. Winning Senate Republicans in Open Seats...

Last week, I explained how a bunch of moderate and liberal Republicans getting elected is consistent with a larger story—my expectation that the new 112th Congress will be the most polarized yet, even...

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The New Winning Republican Moderates in the House

Earlier, I wrote about the likely Republican moderates that stood a good chance of winning office, swept along by what became the tidal wave election of 2010. I identified them in two different ways....

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Fischer: The Correct Conservative Choice in Nebraska

Last Tuesday, Debra ‘Deb’ Fischer won a hotly contested Nebraska Republican primary election for the US Senate seat currently held by the retiring Ben Nelson. She beat Jon Bruning, the current Attorney...

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Individual 2012 Congressional Candidate Scores

Here are my scores for the 2012 House and Senate congressional candidates. 2012 Senate Candidates 2012 House Candidates Graphs of the distributions can be found in this post, and an explanation of how...

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Generating the 2012 Congressional Candidate Scores

Political scientists have been trying to summarize politicians’ ideological preferences for a long time. The most well accepted version of these are called ideal point estimates. These are measures of...

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Graphs of the 2012 Congressional Candidates

Here are two graphs representing the distribution of 2012 US House and Senate congressional candidate ideological positions. Higher (more rightward) scores are more conservative, lower (more leftward)...

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Bimodality Within the Parties in 2012

I recently posted the graph of my estimates of the two parties’ congressional candidates. In that post, I wanted to emphasize that moderation still exists, even in this polarized age. To highlight that...

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Voter Guide Offline

Sorry folks, had some showstopper bugs in my voter guide, despite my best efforts. I’ve taken the survey offline for now. Hopefully it’ll be back up soon.

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My blog in 2012

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. Click here to see the complete report.

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Updated Aggregated Data Release

My coauthor (Nolan McCarty) and I are releasing a new version of our state and chamber-level aggregate data. We have focused on two major updates: In all, we have 140 chamber-years of new data. These...

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New State Polarization Plot

I just posted an updated visualization of state legislative polarization over at the Measuring American Legislatures blog. Here’s a small version you can look at, but see the full post and explanation...

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Christie’s replacement candidates for US Senate Pt 1

Over at American Legislatures, I have a new post about Governor Chris Cristie’s choices for a replacement nomination for US Senate in New Jersey. Three of the top choices from the state legislature–Tom...

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Polarization Trends in American State Legislatures by Chamber

I have a new post about polarization trends in state legislative chambers across the country in the sister blog. Go there for the full details. Here’s a little peek at the key plot. Most state...

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Asymmetric Polarization in the States

Over at American Legislatures, I show that, on the whole, polarization is asymmetric in the state legislatures. Republicans are polarizing faster across more states than Democrats. Examples include...

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New Preliminary 2013 Data on Polarization

I have a new post over at the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. It summarizes some of the posts I’ve made here, for an audience that probably hasn’t seen this blog before. The one update is that...

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The Arkansas Vote on the Private Option aka Medicaid Expansion

A fascinating series of votes just concluded in Arkansas’ state legislature. A year ago, Medicaid expansion was enacted in the state. What is remarkable is that not only is it one of the  more...

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New Update of State Legislative Data Released

We’ve just released the July 2014 update of our state legislative ideology data set. Both legislator-level and state-level data are included, so you can use these scores for a number of different...

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The Republicans Decide in Iowa

I have a new blog post up at the Monkey Cage on the Iowa caucuses. Unlike in Congress where only a single Republican has made an endorsement, the majority of Republicans in the state legislature (47 of...

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