This headline--As Biden Plans Transition, Republicans Decline to Recognize His Election"--would specify *Republican leaders* (which is what the article is about)

Conflating elites w/ ordinary voters--esp. in this kind of context--is very problematic. 1/n https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/republicans-trump-concede-election.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/0...

W/ @ykrupnikov @m_levendusky @ryanbq & Druckman, we find Americans misperceive how ideologically extreme & politically active out-partisans are. (Most are moderate and not obsessed w/ politics!)

Correcting these misperceptions reduces polarization. 2/n

https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2019/wp-19-25.pdf">https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents...

And a new paper by @JKingzette shows that Americans feel substantially warmer toward regular people than toward political elites, who people are generally imagining when they tell you how they feel about out-party members. 3/n https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/who-do-you-loathe-feelings-toward-politicians-vs-ordinary-people-in-the-opposing-party/4A19D69433C8FED1AE3EBA15633C9649">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...

And a great paper by @m_levendusky and @namalhotra shows that Americans overestimate disagreement between partisans and these misperceptions increase negative feelings toward one another. 4/n

https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/80/S1/378/2223197">https://academic.oup.com/poq/artic...

So it& #39;s actually really important that media are careful when describing political conflict. If it& #39;s primarily occurring at the elite level, say so. Misperceptions of our fellow citizens can have big consequences. 5/5

OK so that first typo-ridden tweet in this thread should say: I wish this headline would specify *Republican* leaders..

Tweeting before coffee is a mistake and that& #39;s the real take-away here.