News in Brief It’s Not the States, It’s the Party GOP chairman Reince Priebus says putting Republicans in more primaries and caucuses would make them more competitive in the general election. But the data disagrees. Seth Masket
News in Brief Why Politicians Know So Much That Just Isn’t So A new study finds that politicians think that voters are far more conservative than they really are. Seth Masket
News in Brief The Politics of Attacking Political Science When someone attacks physics, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is there to defend it. But who comes to the defense of political science? Seth Masket
News in Brief How Much Does Ideology Matter in Elections? The outcome of the Obama-Romney race was pretty close to what the data had predicted. Seth Masket
News in Brief If Campaign Effects Are Minimal, Why Even Try? The wisdom of political science says that campaigns don't really matter. So why are campaigns starting to hire political scientists? Seth Masket