
Brian Schaffner
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Political scientist ~ Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies at Tufts ~ C(C)ES Whisperer ~ #COYS #GoDawgs
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new Tufts University Public Opinion Lab post is up and Rolando Ortega uses Pew Research Religion data to dive into the unique political leanings of religious converts tufts-pol.medium.com/switching-thin…


just dropped an article with Brian Schaffner and Steve Ansolabehere showing that claims about young voters flipping to Trump aren't supported by CES, VoteCast, or exit poll data. low response rates and vote misreporting help explain the confusion tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-vot…

In our broken world, there are signs of hope: new data from growing sources like Pew Research Center Tisch College show Christianity is regaining strength—especially among young people. Hope and community are thriving. Faith transforms mental health with healing. Read:






our newest Tufts University Public Opinion Lab blog post features Anna O'Sullivan considering how while male survey respondents often claim to participate more in politics than women, on-the-ground data often shows something different tufts-pol.medium.com/in-american-ci…

another great year of Tufts University Public Opinion Lab in the books and a great chance to honor graduating seniors. really gonna miss this group!


new article published in PLOS One w/ former Tufts University students Thomas Hershewe, Zoe Kava, and Jael Strell who wanted to interrogate whether conservatives really had better mental well-being than liberals. our experiment suggests reason to be skeptical. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…



newest Tufts University Public Opinion Lab blog post: Noah DeYoung ('25) finds that about 20% of Republicans say Trump should run for a third term even if it is unconstitutional...but the same share of Democrats said Obama should do likewise tufts-pol.medium.com/some-republica…

As much as I wish Mike Bailey were right here, we have that 35% response rate survey, and it's the American National Election Studies and it famously in recent years has had some of the exact same issues as lower response rate surveys fielded at significantly lower cost



in the newest Tufts University Public Opinion Lab post, Lucy Belknap explores how people's perceptions of their social status often differs from their actual status, and how that disconnect influences support for Trump tufts-pol.medium.com/trump-is-suppo…

thanks to Shiro Kuriwaki, the Cooperative Election Study common content cumulative data file has been updated with all 701,955 respondents we've interviewed since 2006 dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…