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Christopher J. Devine

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Political science 76%
Sociology 8%
profdevine.bsky.social
101 years ago: "American-Born Pope As Future Possibility"
profdevine.bsky.social
100 years ago, the President of the United States treated his cold by having the Army lock him in an air-tight room filled with chlorine gas.

It went so well that the First Lady joined him the next day (just to hang out, she wasn't sick).

History is interesting.
profdevine.bsky.social
How did people feel about Congress 100 years ago? About the same.
tjryan02.bsky.social
"[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
profdevine.bsky.social
Starting a 6-week paternity leave today. Grateful to my university (and Harrison, too!) for making this possible.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social
A thread on how this wording is wrong—I blame staff!—and why it matters. The VP doesn't "certify" the results. That was the whole point in 2021. I was there!

The VP merely presides over the electoral count. Pence had no power to certify a winner, despite Trump insisting otherwise. 1/
@vp tweet 8:30am 1/6/25: Today, I will perform my constitutional duty as Vice President to certify the results of the 2024 election. This duty is a sacred obligation — one I will uphold guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and unwavering faith in the American people.

And a video that includes that wording.
profdevine.bsky.social
I did it for the first time this semester & followed the example from one of my grad school profs of buying them something with the money. He did a pizza party. I made a game of forecasting the election outcome & got the top two students a gift certificate of their choosing. Went over well, I think.
profdevine.bsky.social
What a great interview, Heath! Very informative.
profdevine.bsky.social
“Perhaps it’s the winning party that really faces the toughest question post-election: How do you build public support during an era of relatively slow growth, low trust in government and low satisfaction with the state of the country?”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...
Postmortems Are Bad at Predictions: Democrats May Just Need a ‘Change’ Election
An opening will probably emerge for Democrats in four years, but it may not be what the party and pundits expect today.
www.nytimes.com
profdevine.bsky.social
Funny enough, this movie provides one of my earliest specific VP memories—(paraphrasing), “Everyone thinks I’m an idiot, but it’s all just a big fakade.”
profdevine.bsky.social
Oh, that is so good! Thanks for sharing (I hadn't seen it). Tough question. My first thought was Cleveland b/c of Stevenson, but Sewall made me realize it was Bryan. Who was his other running mate in 1896, Tom Watson I think?
toddmakse.bsky.social
Happy to share my new paper online now @thejop.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Punchline: state legislators whose districts are in out-of-state media markets are more likely to author and cosponsor policy innovations already adopted in the neighboring state.
Exposure to Neighbor Adoptions, Agenda Setting Behavior, and Policy Diffusion | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
williamadler78.bsky.social
TFW you watch Jeopardy! and all three contestants miss a response because it's about obscure Vice Presidents and you know there are like 8 other people on the planet who feel the way you do @juliaazari.bsky.social @profdevine.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrt...
Presidential Candidates | Final Jeopardy! | JEOPARDY!
YouTube video by Jeopardy!
www.youtube.com
profdevine.bsky.social
Man, I hear that. I’m good in the off-season when not thinking about baseball. These last few days have me missing it again.
profdevine.bsky.social
Who do you see as the main piece in this trade—Hartle or Ortiz?
johnsides.bsky.social
For my new followers, I hope you'll also subscribe and read @goodauth.bsky.social -- a site about politics and political science that I help to run. The focus is research-informed analysis, not bland punditry or dubious hot takes.

Here's an example...
profdevine.bsky.social
Thank you. I checked, but not carefully enough. I appreciate you flagging this and will delete.

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