Distrusting Republicans, But Voting For Them Anyway, Ctd

Karl Smith theorizes that an an invisible hand moves swing voters. Will Wilkinson vote Republican:

Divided government has many under-appreciated virtues. As the Cato Institute's William Niskanen has pointed out,divided government is the best recipe for fiscal restraint—somethingAmerica will urgently require, come the recovery. Divided governmentsare also less likely to charge into war. "In 200 years of US history,every one of our conflicts involving more than a week of ground combathas...