John Sides: “Here’s some breaking news: the kind of people who choose to watch a vice-presidential debate instead of baseball or football or a cooking show are not sensitive
souls who curl up into a ball at the first sign of disagreement between
politicians. People who choose to watch political conflict can deal
with it. Those who can’t — or just aren’t interested in the first
place — are watching something else. Research by political scientists Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson shows this.”
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