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Despite the 2020 election results, you can still trust polling. Mostly.

Robert Shapiro - December 2, 2020

Yes, there’s a problem with pre-election polling. But mass opinion polls don’t have that problem.

Why can’t the Senate repeal Obamacare? Because its policies are actually popular.

Robert Shapiro and Greg Shaw - July 19, 2017

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/senate-health-care-bill-collapses-under-opposition/2017/07/18/3617584c-6bd7-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_video.html After seven years of promising to repeal Obamacare, Republicans

Is it crazy for Michael Bloomberg to run for president? Maybe not.

Robert Shapiro - January 23, 2016

[caption id="attachment_34718" align="aligncenter" width="908"] (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe)[/caption] Today's report that former

Can young voters break the cycle of polarization?

- January 20, 2014

Robert Y. Shapiro is a professor of political science at

American Politics in Two Numbers

Larry Bartels - April 16, 2012

Projected decline in total federal spending (relative to GDP), 2011-2023,

What Do Political Polls Really Accomplish?

John Sides - December 23, 2011

This is a guest post from Lawrence Jacobs, who is

Should We Get Rid of Polls?

John Sides - July 14, 2009

In graduate school, one of my advisors gave a presentation