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laraputnam.bsky.social
Historian. Mom. Knocks on doors and talks politics. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/lara-putnam
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A few weeks/lifetime ago I did an obsessively long thread re the new Bonica et al paper that examines the vote penalty paid by individual candidates for extremism & makes assertions [to my eye, ungrounded ones] about a potential broader turnout boost extremism might bring to the party as a whole.

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I'm going to stake out the apparently-edgy-onhere position that the voter shifts described by David Shor here are real, & should be cause for genuinely difficult rethinking of strategies based on no-longer-accurate assumptions about the 'rising American electorate' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

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