Weekly updates tracking how members of Congress communicate with constituents, highlighting messaging trends, issue emphasis, and emerging language patterns. I focus on primary source trends over "takes".
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A Republican Tilt in Prediction Markets?
I’m a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. My students are very bright and the majority of students in my classes are STEM oriented. I teach Intro to US Politics in our Quantitative Social Sciences program and during election years...
Democrats Remind Constituents to Vote More than Republicans in Official E-newsletters
There are a lot of ways that Congressional Republicans use official e-newsletters differently and in some cases likely more effectively than Democrats. I write (and think) about that a lot.
But something that is interesting and unique abou...
And now the Democrats focus on Measles
In August 2019, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a newsletter to her Tennessee constituents with a rather straightforward message towards the bottom of her update: “VACCINES SAVE LIVES.” Here’s what it looks like:
Blackburn wasn’t...
The Authoritarian Is the Other Guy
Congress seems to agree that authoritarianism is dangerous. But what counts as authoritarianism, and who gets accused of it, changes depending on who’s in the White House.
In January 2022, Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado ce...
Socialism & Women explaining their votes
One of my very first insights (truly - this was back in 2016(!)) from studying DCinbox was that women tended to reveal and explain more votes than men did in official e-newsletters.
I haven’t done a full update of that paper, aside: if yo...
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Lindsey Cormack is a political scientist, author, and creator of DCinbox — the only comprehensive archive of constituent e-newsletters sent by members of Congress. She is an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
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