- this finding, here laid out by @lakshya.splitticket.org, is what I just can't get past when you look for Democrats who run ahead of the national ticket you keep finding people with a grab bag of semi-coherent moderate views and very few with coherent left-lib views split-ticket.org/2025/03/17/a...
- This article is informative, but what is actually says is that being supported by a moderate caucus is correlated with electoral success, while voting record is not for Democrats. That disconnect makes it fuzzy what about being supported by a moderate caucus is connected to more votes.
- it's saying that the model of ideology by voting record is very messy, especially over the sample of just a term or two, and models based on that will struggle to find effects because their measure is not grasping ideology wellMay 13, 2025 23:51
- I do think it's absolutely the case that there are ways to build a pretty good, even great voting record while being cranky enough in attention getting ways to be perceived as moderate Pre-2017 Bernie was the king of this
