Patrick Miller

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    Partisan voters treat politics and elections like a competitive sports rivalry.

Partisan voters treat politics and elections like a competitive sports rivalry.

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The rise of political polarization in the U.S. government has been mirrored by a similar trend of growing animosity between people who support different parties. But how have these – often uncivil – rivalries arisen? Using data from two representative surveys of Americans in 2010 and 2012, Patrick R. Miller find that partisans treat politics as they would a […]

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    Not So Flat and Boring After All: How the Kansas Senate Race Became 2014’s Most Improbable Tossup

Not So Flat and Boring After All: How the Kansas Senate Race Became 2014’s Most Improbable Tossup

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Before this summer, few commentators would have thought that the state of Kansas would move from a safe Republican seat to a tossup race that may have implications for the control of the Senate. Patrick Miller looks at the state of the race between the three term time incumbent Pat Roberts and his Independent challenger, Greg Orman. He writes […]

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