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Questions about November’s midterm election that maybe you were afraid to ask were answered at the PEG-sponsored talk by Traugott. Among other topics, he discussed how each party’s advantages—Democratic enthusiasm and Republican gerrymandering and structural dominance in the Senate—impacted the 2018 midterm election.

Other topics Traugott covered were gerrymandering and how computer technology has brought it to new standard of perfection; the gender, race, and age gap all of which favors Democrats; and what he termed “affective polarization,” by which he meant the growing ideological distance between the two parties. Sadly, in regard to that distance and dislike between Republicans and Democrats, he believes it will divide America for some years to come. If you missed it, click on the video here.