Ryan Claassen

Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. I research and write about religion and politics, public opinion, and voting.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

@AndrewRLewis Ha, I'm going to get the vaccine way before you. Finally something good comes from being old.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

@mjensley, @ryanbq and I have a piece in the Washington Post today about the public’s reaction to Trump’s claims of fraud.

Analysis | Why so many Republican officials went along with Trump’s fraud claims https://t.co/2FJSw7JLhD

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

John Ryan and I have a piece in the Washington Post:

Analysis | Why did the polls undercount Trump voters? https://t.co/fWpiEfDIMv

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Thanks Matt for mentioning this research Mike Ensley and I did. This stuff matters and sometimes in weird ways. A few years ago our yard sign being stolen became the first political memory for my young daughters.

[Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann]

Less seriously but indicative of real-life polarization, yard sign theft may be rising:
https://t.co/7Zz7g8Clm4

Research shows partisan motivated reasoning can excuse this conduct:
https://t.co/0Tbq5OpY06
Many are even willing to excuse hurting reporters:
https://t.co/DEOXCZB28E

[Jeremy Castle @CastlePoliSci]

Thanks to @RyanClaassen for this excellent review of my book in the latest issue of Perspectives. I agree with everything- even the (gentle) criticism. https://t.co/cW1Sj4WALh

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

A big part of the Trump defense was that impeachment should be bipartisan, as it was in the House in the Clinton case. Interesting that Trump's Senate vote was bipartisan, but Clinton's was not.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

And I thought school lunches couldn't possibly get worse. Sometimes lunch is a mini cinnamon bun. It is all pre packaged garbage. How about we bring back kitchens at schools.

Trump administration proposes changing school menus

https://t.co/HME7PKyBzO

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

As a survey researcher, I believe in polls (when procedures are robust and analysts are careful). But they weren't deigned to cull candidates for the Democratic Party.
#byebyefavoritecandidates

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Could write thousands of words about this graph.

Boomers were never as religious as prior generations. #okboomers

Gen Xers in their 20's were more religiously affiliated than boomers in their 50's.

But millennials are on an entirely new trajectory - no leveling off.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Scholar and movie star! Too cool.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Completely humbled to be part of a @NBCLeftField documentary about the decline of religion in the United States. @skydylanrobbins is a true master of her craft. Some of my congregation and my kids even make an appearance.

https://t.co/I4dMGWw1kJ

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

@AndrewRLewis Can you shoot a copy my way.

[Paul Djupe @PaulDjupe]

Mayor Pete is likely to face some headwinds with Black voters in the Democratic nomination contest for multiple reasons, one of which is that Blacks tend not to express much warmth twd gays and lesbians (as well as atheists). I'll bet partisanship would overcome in the general.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

We should not have partisan election officials.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

@JLasaine @PolBehavior @MattGrossmann @PaulDjupe @AndrewRLewis @JacobNeiheisel I doubt that they do, but everyone survey researchers place in a group are responding in the same way to the same prompt.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Here's a blogpost about my forthcoming Political Behavior article with @PaulDjupe @AndrewRLewis and @JacobNeiheisel

https://t.co/jeIPudntha

[Napp Nazworth @NappNazworth]

@spulliam @PaulDjupe @socofthesacred @between2worlds @Eugene_Scott @BCalfano You should get a copy of @PaulDjupe & @RyanClaassen's edited volume where that's from. I wrote about it here: https://t.co/MKn7kKSkNB

[Andrew Lewis @AndrewRLewis]

You can find it @PolBehavior

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Dems need to do a better job discussing their tax ideas! It sounded like Dems were after 70% of America's income last night--this is not even remotely the case. Here's a primer:

Analysis | Ocasio-Cortez’s 70-percent tax rate: Not so radical? https://t.co/qDEpTfeSj0

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Debate ensued...here's @PaulDjupe's follow-up.

[Paul Djupe @PaulDjupe]

Tobin had a twitter thread questioning my results from yesterday, so I wrote a new post looking at whether a white evangelical identity is linked to racial resentment. I thought we already knew this, but it's always good to confirm with data, esp across multiple years.

[Ryan Claassen @RyanClaassen]

Really important look at a driving force behind evangelical politics.

[ReligioninPublic @Religion_Public]

Does Evangelicalism Drive Racial Resentment? Using @DemocracyFund panel data, @PaulDjupe shows evangelicals left behind on race. https://t.co/opneP4eI44