Costas Panagopoulos

NY's New Leftist Mayor Faces Perilous Budget Test Two months after riding into office on a wave of youth support and hopes his unprecedented leftist policies could tackle New York's soaring cost of living, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is eying raising an unp...

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Trump's maximization strategy risks obscuring his results The tactics Trump uses to get results inflate the stakes and provide opponents with the opportunity to downplay concessions.

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Mike Johnson's majority in peril after sudden Republican death The GOP's House majority shrunk following the death of Representative Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican.

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Trump's first year back in office: Four successes and four failures “Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration,” Trump said this month.

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DraftKings backed Healey’s political nonprofit on housing. Other funders are a mystery DraftKings, the Boston sports-betting giant, donated $50,000 to a political advocacy group launched by Gov. Maura Healey to promote housing policies. It's a rare look at who's donating to this fund, a...

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Republicans increasingly say Trump doing "too much" on deportations A poll by the Pew Research Center found 20 percent of Republicans now disagree with the administration's immigration crackdown.

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Trump open to drug strikes on Mexico and Colombia The president also refused to rule out putting boots on the ground in Venezuela to bring about the end of Nicolás Maduro's regime.

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What Tennessee election result means For midterms The Democratic candidate's overperformance in the special election is the latest warning sign for the GOP ahead of the midterms.

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How Democrats could take back control of House from GOP before 2026 midterm Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation will shrink the GOP's already razor-thin majority in the House.

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Revisiting name recognition and candidate support: Experimental tests of the mere exposure hypothesis - Costas Panagopoulos, Donald P. Green, Philip Moniz, 2025 Often lacking adequate information to guide their votes, voters may be susceptible to subtle psychological influences, including name recognition. For decades, ...

New study by @professorcostas.bsky.social, Green & Moniz tests the “mere exposure” effect in real-world elections. Across 3 experiments, simply seeing challengers’ names doesn’t boost support—even with party labels. Name recognition alone ≠ votes.

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Republicans face Jeffrey Epstein reckoning as end of shutdown looms Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva said she would sign a petition to force a vote on the Epstein files as soon as she is sworn in.

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How Mamdani copied the Trump playbook to triumph in New York In just over a year, Mamdani went from a rank outsider to being elected the mayor of the nation's largest city.

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Democrats just flipped the script on Donald Trump and Republicans Democrats' focus on affordability—an issue that helped Trump one year ago—fueled their victories in Tuesday's elections.

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The ‘Political Score’ You Might Not Even Know You Have

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How Donald Trump could serve a third term in 2028: Four possible options The 22nd Amendment says that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

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Lots of people in Worcester don’t vote. Some groups are trying to change that. Residents say they don’t expect their votes to prompt real change. Others say they don’t have enough information to cast a ballot.

Voter turnout for municipal elections in #Worchester has reached a low of 17%. @professorcostas.bsky.social emphasizes the challenges to voting, saying “often people are working two jobs…that prevent them from going to the polls on Election Day.” Read more from @wgbh.org

Gavin Newsom gets Prop 50 poll boost A poll found a majority of voters are backing a measure to counter GOP efforts to add more House seats in Texas and other states.

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Trump voters disapprove of $40-billion Argentina bailout: Poll The poll found almost half of Trump voters disapprove of the government's bailout of Argentina, while just 30 percent approve.

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Seth Moulton's chances of beating Ed Markey in Massachusetts Senate primary Moulton announced he is challenging the longtime legislator for the Democratic Senate nomination on Wednesday.

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Pence @EMKInstitute today: "Democracy depends on heavy doses of civility."

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Republicans get warning about government shutdown in new poll A new poll shed light on whether voters would blame Democrats or Republicans for a government shutdown.

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Donald Trump's Epstein problem keeps coming back This week, the Epstein case resurfaced yet again when the White House was forced to deny an alleged birthday note from Trump to the disgraced financier.

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0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now A Gallup poll found the split between Republicans and Democrats about their satisfaction with the direction of the country was at its widest since 2001.

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Bush family makes moves to reboot political dynasty Jonathan Bush, cousin of former President George W. Bush, is eyeing a gubernatorial run.

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Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with Black voters The latest Economist/YouGov survey shows Trump's approval rating has dipped among Black voters.

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Kraft fundraising emails appearing to be from prominent Democrats draw criticism Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft is facing questions over campaign emails that appear to be from politicians like Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff and Roy Cooper.

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Donald Trump gets good news from most accurate pollster A new survey found that nearly half of all voters and 80 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Trump, while just 13 percent view him unfavorably.

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Is MAGA turning against Israel? Some high-profile conservatives are ramping up critiques of Israel.

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