Lynn Vavreck
The New York Times
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Americans Mostly Agree on Policing. The Difference Is Priorities.
Why has it become a big election issue? Democrats prioritize banning chokeholds, and Republicans are focused on not defunding the police. → Read More
How Local Covid Deaths Are Affecting Vote Choice
A rise in coronavirus-related deaths in a given community tends to reduce support for Republicans. → Read More
Bernie Sanders, and How Indian Food Can Predict Vote Choice
Seemingly nonpolitical topics can shed light on political preferences. → Read More
Are Democratic Voters Truly Divided by Ideology?
Survey results suggests their views and priorities are far more alike than different, despite labels like moderate or progressive, centrist or liberal. → Read More
What Are Independent Voters’ Burning Issues?
After impeachment, their second-most important topic is the separation of immigrant children at the border. → Read More
What Is Voters’ Highest Priority? There’s a Way to Find Out
Peeling away preferences, a study shows impeachment is at the top of the list for Republicans, and is the second choice for Democrats. → Read More
It’s Not So Much the Debate. It’s the Days After the Debate.
Dramatic moments aren’t as important as the story lines that become set in the aftermath. → Read More
Stacey Abrams Debates Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics
Stacey Abrams and other authors respond to Francis Fukuyama's Foreign Affairs essay "Against Identity Politics" and discuss the meaning and value of identity politics in the United States and beyond. → Read More
Independents Approve of the Economy, but Will It Help Republicans in the Midterms?
Relying on independents as a bellwether for political outcomes is not as straightforward as it seems. For one thing, many of them aren’t paying that much attention to politics. → Read More
Unable to Excite the Base? Moderate Candidates Still Tend to Outdo Extreme Ones
An analysis of more than 30 years of House general elections suggests: Don’t nominate someone who will motivate the other side to show up. → Read More
Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate
Distrust of the government's intentions toward noncitizens may be hard to overcome, research suggests, and political developments have increased levels of distrust. → Read More
Bill Clinton, Roy Moore and the Power of Social Identity
A partisan lens often leads people to different interpretations of the same set of facts. → Read More
Why Trump’s Softening on Immigration Is Unlikely to Splinter His Base
Many Republican voters support DACA, especially G.O.P. elites, and he could always change his mind. He’s done it before. → Read More
The Political Payoff of Making Whites Feel Like a Minority
Survey data suggest that white Trump voters tend to feel a sense of threat about being discriminated against. → Read More
The Great Political Divide Over American Identity
The data show that the nation as a whole is moving away from exclusionary conceptions of identity that President Trump benefited from. → Read More
A Superhero Power for Our Time: How to Handle the Truth
Simply telling people they’re wrong is unlikely to change minds: You have to understand the human defaults of gut feeling and analytic thinking. → Read More
The Ways That the 2016 Election Was Perfectly Normal
The economy and party identification typically matter a lot in elections, even in a year with a highly atypical candidate like Donald Trump. → Read More
Ordering Vindaloo or Hunting for Venison: How Cosmopolitanism Shapes the Vote
The degree of exposure to social and cultural differences is correlated with voting preferences. → Read More
A Measure of Identity: Are You Wedded to Your Party?
A survey of whom American voters prefer for their children’s marriage partners shows just how powerful party identification has become. → Read More
The Ad That Moved People the Most: Bernie Sanders’s ‘America’
It was the campaign advertisement from 2016 that was rated the happiest and the most hopeful. → Read More