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A good deal of that is less campaign strategy and more inherent weakness of the candidate.
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Aggregate congressional approval ratings are low, but people still like their senators and reps (even when they can't name them) and there is substantial evidence that legislators remain responsive to their constituents' policy preferences.
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Condiv posted:would like to see this evidence, because there's been published evidence that more often than not they respond to their wealthy constituents' policy preferences, with the poor and middle class being afterthoughts I am also aware of the literature you refer to, like Martin Gilen's Affluence and Influence, and it's good, but less well-established and more controversial from a methodological perspective than the above. The issue is that there is a high degree of correlation between the views of the rich and poor and due to multicollinearity it's hard to integrate the preferences of high and low income earners into a regression model. There is also a high degree of skepticism among low-income voters that the plans from the left to help them will actually work, and at the end of the day many of them would rather just keep their tax money. e: Of course there's a lot more lit out there than what I've cited about responsiveness, which is on the whole kind of a controversial subject and more difficult to prove causally than you might expect. Would be happy to send other article/book recs on the subject over PM. KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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