Robert Alexander Kraig

And I'm a little bit tired this morning as we record on Thursday, because I was up late last night watching Manny Machado's dreams come crashing down in the glove of Garrett Mitchell.

And I am joined this week by our resident Cubs fan, Executive Director Robert Kraig.

Robert, good to have you.

Good to be here, Matt, as always.

Yes.

Yes, yes.

Well, look, Robert, as I said, I am a little tired today because it was a pretty epic victory last night for the Brewers, for all you Brewer fans.

Yeah.

So one starting point in some of your scholarship as you look for, as you said, a democracy that actually functions, that is actually responsive to people's needs and representative of what people want.

is we're probably, and you're much more the, I'm much more the humanist, you're a serious social scientist, Nathan, but there's like 70, 75 years of actually strong, repeatable data about voting behavior, roughly, give or take.

That's the general timeline of when the social science really developed, post-Cold War, post-World War II, really.

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