D. Stephen Voss

Kentucky-based political scientist, consultant, former journalist. Opinions expressed here are unconnected to my employer's. Retweets != endorsements.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@ClistonBrown @hedeedit Many of the pathologies of the American political system result from politicians pandering to voters, rather than from politicians ignoring voters.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

"In the court filing, Vaughn said following the uproar over her message sales were down 31% in February and down 33% in March."

The "message" was not to discriminate against federal agents. Political polarization strikes again.

https://t.co/z89qF9xRcG

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@ClistonBrown @kings_memoirs Kentuckians were asked this question. Those along the Ohio River consider themselves Midwestern. In the rest of the state, they consider themselves Southern.

[olivia krauth @oliviakrauth]

At long last, some personal news: I'm officially the Kentucky political correspondent for Hellbender Newsroom, a brand-new publication from @CourierNewsroom. 🦎

[Maya Sen @maya_sen]

Nice to see research documenting what myself and others have been pointing out - growth in university admin has spiraled

A potential solution identified in this paper seems to be a higher tolerance of ad hoc problem solving

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@r0ckstep @TimetoRebuildit @vjoshuaadams To answer your broader question, we'd need a period when student literacy actually increased to see whether educators still whined about it.

Would be pretty hard to measure, tho. The pool of students changes, so literacy could climb while the average student's abilities dropped.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@bymorgankeith Or to teach around the lack of those skills.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@SashaGusevPosts @ChrisCWright1 @ethnopoetics Depends on how you define the minor leagues, but at least when it comes to the research metrics used by respected public universities (for promotion, merit review, or post-tenure review), they're demanding quantity. Breakthrough hits are important, but so is constant production.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@SashaGusevPosts @ChrisCWright1 @ethnopoetics Only if the academic wants to stay in the minor leagues.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Genuinely, can someone give me the steel man version of the rationale behind the new “give everyone AI” university strategy? What is the theory of the case here? Do universities think it’s sustainable to ask students to pay over $90k per year to cheat their way through college?

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@hcs862 @nataliemj10 It's easy to come up with newer examples of partisans exempting bad behavior from their politicos. But there's no clearer, better-documented case than Clinton's of what happens when they're no longer needed. Went from highly popular to being thrown under the bus in record time.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@nataliemj10 @bosworthavenger Toeing the party line isn't the same thing as being principled. Even if it were true that voters tend to prefer principled candidates, they don't reward party unity for the sake of party unity.

https://t.co/XCIPHdXoyd

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@ClistonBrown Not saying this is the answer, but the apparatus required to restrict access to the food could be more expensive than the cost of simply providing lunches to all? Economies of scale. Especially if you consider that affluent kids like to show their status by purchasing other food.

[Michael LaRosa @MichaelLaRosaDC]

I honestly don’t know what’s more remarkable to watch unfold: the endless firehose gushing out disturbing behavior surrounding this man-child candidate every day, or all of the people bending over backwards to rationalize, excuse, or explain why he's the face and future of the Democratic Party and everyone should avert your eyes, hold your nose, and drink the kool-aide any way.

At some point, the debate stops being about the candidate himself and becomes about the willingness of others to overlook things they would never tolerate from from the other side. Kind of reminds me of everyone on my side complaining and whining about Republicans who sacrificed their values to support candidates like Trump, Paxton, or [insert Republican here].

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@Rudly_Stamped @katrosenfield Some of the people who held or espoused silly views have grown beyond those silly views. The cowards & conformists who catered to them, though, are still cowards & conformists - although they might be kowtowing to different bullies now.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@ClistonBrown Problem is, extremists control the rhetoric because extreme rhetoric is what makes it to the public. All a candidate accomplishes with toned-down messaging is to be ignored. And even if their message does get out, primary voters often prefer the irresponsible option.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@BillJelavich @DamonLinker @StephenJack4 Which is why this "political analyst" is certain he doesn't know what the post-Trump GOP will end up looking like.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@pschofie79 You're being facetious, right?

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

@ClistonBrown If we didn't have so many workers employed as servants, what else are they capable of doing that someone would pay them to do?