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Sean McElwee

  • Executive Director, Data for Progress
New York, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: CNN, Medium, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Yahoo Singapore, NBC News, PBS, The Atlantic and
Founder of Positive Sum Strategies. Founded @DataProgress. I work with companies and non-profits to achieve ambitious policy goals. seanadrianmc @ gmail
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Democrats, Be the Party of Pragmatic Progress

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By Sean McElwee
| The Liberal Patriot
Education polarization—the increasing extent to which education predicts voting patterns—has become an increasingly important political trend affecting political outcomes not just in the United States, but in most Western democracies. In the United States, the rise of Donald Trump, who accelerated a shift of high-education suburban voters into the Democratic Party, made this phenomenon more salient to political observers.
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Sean McElwee’s Betting Against Democracy

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By Jeet Heer Verified, Sean McElwee, Paige Oamek, Robert Borosage
| The Nation Verified
Sean McElwee speaks about voter registration on The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow. (Screenshot from The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow) Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Even by Washington standards, the rapid rise and equally quick descent of Sean McElwee is a dizzying story.
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Why Prediction Markets Make The World A Better Place

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By Sean McElwee
| Medium
One of the greatest mythologies of political television is the perception that campaigns, independent expenditures and other political actors have access to frequent, on-demand and reliable information about where they stand with voters. In the television show Parks and Recreation, Leslie Knope has tracking polls of her city council race - a geography no pollster would even attempt with current response rates.
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