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The New York Times
Accurate Polls Hinge on a Tricky Question: Who’s Actually Going to Vote?
Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffer comments on the imprecise nature of polling “likely voters” noting, “The reason you should care is because [polling] does reflect that turnout matters.” Data on voter records from Schaffner’s 2020 Cooperative Election Study is also referenced.
Do Women Candidates Have a Harder Time Being Elected?
A political scientist explains the surprising role that gender plays in American politics
Good Authority
Are Black voters really leaving Democrats in the dust?
Using data from the Cooperative Election Study, A&S political scientist Brian Schaffner and rising fourth-year A&S student Caroline Soler analyze the support that Democrats have had from Black voters and Black nonvoters from 2008 to 2020.
The Baltimore Sun
Don’t blame the politicians; blame the voters
This opinion piece cites A&S political scientist Brian Schaffner’s collaborative research on how voter attitudes about racism and sexism influenced the 2016 election.
Brian Schaffner Named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
The political scientist will research a book about partisan polarization and seek a path to bridge the divide
ABC News
What issues will matter most to Hispanic voters in 2024?
This article references a 538 analysis of data from the Cooperative Election Study taken before the 2020 elections and the 2022 midterms focusing on Hispanic voters.
ABC News
Voters under 30 are trending left of the general electorate
This article references Cooperative Election Study data on the 2020 elections and the 2022 midterms, which found notable differences between younger voters and the general electorate on key issues like the environment, abortion and immigration
ABC News