Elections have Consequences

Trip Gabriel’s Thread on McAuilffe’s polling: https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1458227755250765827
Vox article with plot of McAuliffe v Northam vote share: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/4/22761168/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory
The NJ election we mentioned – Durr over Sweeney: https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/11/how-a-truck-driver-spent-153-on-his-nj-election-campaign-to-likely-dethrone-a-political-kingpin.html
SALT is a giveaway to the rich: https://www.yahoo.com/news/second-biggest-program-democrats-spending-202418744.html (It’s a Washington Post article but this version via Yahoo is ungated now)
Randomizing Media Strategy study “How Large and Long-lasting Are the Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads? Results from a Randomized Field Experiment”: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/how-large-and-longlasting-are-the-persuasive-effects-of-televised-campaign-ads-results-from-a-randomized-field-experiment/DA29FE8A5581C772006A1DEBB21CFC4C
Little difference in outcomes between Democratic and Republican governors: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/noisy-retrospection-the-effect-of-party-control-on-policy-outcomes/A87D42DD1778755E71DC65B1825B64D5
Literature review about how much political campaigns matter: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-polisci-072012-113556
Thermostatic Voting: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111666?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

John Cochrane on a progressive VAT: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-progressive-vat.html

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