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NFL Draft No. 8 pick Jordyn Tyson sports older brother's shoes from NBA Draft
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Apr 24 β€’ 10:33 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Pickups: 3 relievers to target going into this weekend, plus more streaming options
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Apr 24 β€’ 10:28 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Sean McVay comes off as 'muted,' 'mad' after Rams' surprise pick of Alabama QB Ty Simpson
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Apr 24 β€’ 9:59 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
George Pickens is planning to sign $27.3 million franchise tag with Cowboys

Pickens has yet to sign the one-year, fully guaranteed contract but intends to put the issue to rest as the Cowboys go into the NFL draft.

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Apr 24 β€’ 8:53 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ spectrumlocalnews.com
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake Dev Promises Lots Of Blood

Assassin's Creed fans have been picking over the reveal footage with lots of questions

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Apr 24 β€’ 8:48 AM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ kotaku.com
Sports Daily: Recapping wild first night for Chiefs in NFL Draft

Did the Chiefs make the right move? We recap what they did with their first pick on the first night of the NFL Draft.

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Apr 24 β€’ 8:00 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ kwch.com
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Ranking every NFL Draft first-round pick: Raiders get top billing; Cardinals' luxurious move drops them down

Value and personal evaluations are taken into account with each first-round pick.

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Apr 24 β€’ 7:00 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
These Fun Pursuits Help Middle-Aged Folks Protect Brain Health, Study Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) β€” Picking up an instrument. Taking a trip abroad. Going out to dinner with friends. All of these are pleasant activities that add spice to life. And they are also some of the most powerful ways to boost brain power and ...

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Apr 24 β€’ 6:35 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ usnews.com
The NFL Draft opened with a gamble, a surprise and a sign of things to come

The Rams picking QB Ty Simpson shocked experts and fans alike, but it wasn't the only takeaway from Thursday's first round.

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Apr 24 β€’ 6:01 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ nbcnews.com
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Pick of the stats: Birmingham City v Bristol City

Here are the key stats for Birmingham City v Bristol City.

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Apr 24 β€’ 5:42 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
St Mirren v Livingston: Pick of the stats

St Mirren have lost just one of their past 16 Scottish Premiership meetings with Livingston (W7 D8), going down 1-0 away from home in February 2024. Livingston won their first-ever Premiership visit to St Mirren 2-0 in August 2018, but have since failed to win 10 such trips in the competition (D4 L6), losing their past four in a row and failing to score in their latest three. Depending on Kilmarnock's result at Aberdeen, Livingston could be relegated this weekend should they fail to beat St Mirren.

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Apr 24 β€’ 4:55 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
β€œA Picayune Detail:” Nazi Science Heads West

As Allied forces crossed the English Channel during the D-Day invasion of June 1944, some 10,000 intelligence officers known as T-Forces were right behind the advance battalions. Their mission: seize munitions experts, technicians, German scientists and their research materials, along with French scientists who had collaborated with the Nazis. Soon, a substantial number of such scientists had been picked up and placed in an internment camp known as the Dustbin. In the original planning for the mission, a prime factor was the view that German military equipment – tanks, jets, rocketry and so forth – was technically superior and that captured scientists, technicians and engineers could be swiftly debriefed in an effort by the Allies to catch up.

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Apr 24 β€’ 1:59 AM EDT β€’ Science β€’ counterpunch.org
2026 NFL Day 2 mock draft: When do Carson Beck, Garrett Nussmeier come off the board?

Projecting Day 2 picks as teams attack needs and top prospects slide into Rounds 2-3.

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Apr 24 β€’ 1:16 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
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NFL Draft 2026: Sean McVay comes off as 'muted' after Rams' surprise pick of Alabama QB Ty Simpson
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Apr 24 β€’ 1:02 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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Apr 24 β€’ 1:00 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ politico.com
Seahawks fans behind Jadarian Price selection at No. 32 overall

Seahawks fans reacted positively in large part to Jadarian Price being selected by Seattle with the No. 32 overall pick in the NFL draft.

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Apr 24 β€’ 12:29 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
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NFL Draft first-round winners and losers: Look out, the Cowboys made the best pick
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Apr 23 β€’ 11:50 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Mixed reactions to Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round draft pick

Reactions are mixed about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round draft pick.

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Apr 23 β€’ 11:38 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Raiders' challenge? Make Mendoza successful

The No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft will be asked to turn around a franchise that has struggled mightily the past few years.

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Apr 23 β€’ 11:30 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Bills stockpile picks while moving out of first round in NFL Draft

The Bills moved out of the first round entirely.

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Apr 23 β€’ 11:11 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ spectrumlocalnews.com
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Panthers select Georgia OT Monroe Freeling with the 19th pick in the NFL draft

The 6-foot-7, 315-pound Freeling played three seasons for the Bulldogs and started 18 games over the past two seasons.

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Apr 23 β€’ 10:30 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ spectrumlocalnews.com
Detroit fans react as Lions pick Clemson OT Blake Miller

Here's the best reactions as the Detroit Lions pick Clemson offensive tackle Blake Miller in the 2026 NFL Draft.

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Apr 23 β€’ 10:17 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
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Eagles trade up with Cowboys, draft USC WR Makai Lemon in Round 1

In a trade with the Cowboys, the Eagles select USC WR Makai Lemon with the 20th overall pick.

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Apr 23 β€’ 10:03 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
Giants take Ohio State's Arvell Reese with 5th pick, then get help for offensive line at No. 10
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Apr 23 β€’ 9:06 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Jets take edge rusher David Bailey over Ohio State's Arvell Reese with No. 2 pick, then take Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq, Indiana WR Omar Cooper Jr. in 1st round
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Apr 23 β€’ 8:39 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Cardinals draft Jeremiyah Love No. 3: Highest RB pick since Saquon Barkley now among NFL's highest-paid

Love goes No. 3 to Arizona, becoming the highest-drafted RB since 2018 and landing a $50M rookie deal

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Apr 23 β€’ 8:25 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
Cardinals draft Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love at No. 3

The Arizona Cardinals are drafting Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love with the No. 3 overall pick.

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Apr 23 β€’ 8:24 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ arizonasports.com
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2026 NFL Draft grades for every first-round pick: How did Fernando Mendoza do?
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Apr 23 β€’ 8:23 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Dallas Cowboys NFL Draft tracker: Picks, grades, analysis for every selection

Track every Cowboys pick in the 2026 NFL Draft with live grades, analysis and updates

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Apr 23 β€’ 6:28 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
2026 NFL mock draft 9.3: Full and final 32-pick 1st round
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Apr 23 β€’ 6:16 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Cardinals draft picks tracker: Every selection, live grades
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Apr 23 β€’ 5:50 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
NFL draft picks tracker: Analysis for every 2026 first-round selection

The 2026 NFL draft is finally here. The first-round tracker offers instant analysis on all 32 picks made Thursday night in Pittsburgh.

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Apr 23 β€’ 5:40 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ usatoday.com
Sheridan teachers’ strike tensions ratchet over health care benefits

The strike stretches into its third week as Gov. Polis continues to press both sides to come to an agreement.

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Apr 23 β€’ 1:28 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ cpr.org
NFL mock draft 2026: We prompted AI to predict the 1st round. Here are its picks
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Apr 23 β€’ 12:21 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
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2026 NFL Draft Gambo 5: Predicting the Cardinals' pick

John Gambadoro names a group of five players, and he guarantees one of them will be picked by the Arizona Cardinals if they stay put at No. 3.

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Apr 23 β€’ 11:54 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ arizonasports.com
Trump picks former SC Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer for Belize ambassadorship

President Donald Trump is once again nominating South Carolina’s AndrΓ© Bauer to be the U.S. ambassador to Belize. Now it’s up to the Senate to confirm him to the post.

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Apr 23 β€’ 11:00 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ postandcourier.com
NFL Draft 2026: Running back position may be devalued, but the safest pick is probably Jeremiyah Love
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Apr 23 β€’ 10:02 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
US business activity recovers in April, war with Iran is boosting prices, S&P Global survey shows

U.S. business activity picked up in April after nearly stalling in the prior month, but supplier delivery times at factories worsened as the war with ​Iran disrupted supply chains, pushing a measure of output prices to a near four-year high.

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Apr 23 β€’ 9:49 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ reuters.com
US Business Activity Expands While Prices Rise Most Since 2022

US business activity picked up in April, fueled by the strongest manufacturing growth in nearly four years as war-related supply disruptions prompted a scramble for supplies.

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Apr 23 β€’ 9:45 AM EDT β€’ Business β€’ bloomberg.com
2026 NFL mock draft 9.2: Will Cowboys target WR with their 1st-round picks after George Pickens negotiations stall?
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Apr 23 β€’ 9:29 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
YouTube TV’s fully customizable multiview finally starts rolling out

YouTube TV begins rolling out its fully customizable multiview feature, allowing users to pick their own channel grids on TV and mobile.

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Apr 23 β€’ 5:38 AM EDT β€’ Technology β€’ androidauthority.com
Trump’s CDC chief pick a move towards β€˜evidence-based science’

Optimism over president’s choice of former deputy surgeon-general as next director of troubled agency

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Apr 23 β€’ 5:00 AM EDT β€’ Science β€’ researchprofessionalnews.com
Titans' NFL Draft: What will they do with pick 4?

The Tennessee Titans hold the fourth overall pick in the NFL Draft. What will they do with it? Here are best and worst case scenarios.

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Apr 23 β€’ 4:51 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
ESPN draft analyst's final mock is dream scenario for 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers were able to steal a starter at a position of need in a surprise pick in Matt Miller's final mock draft of 2026.

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Apr 23 β€’ 12:15 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
The Herald's weekly entertainment picks

Looking to be entertained from Thursday, April 23, through Wednesday, April 29? Check out the Skagit Valley Herald’s weekly recommendations.

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Apr 22 β€’ 11:30 PM EDT β€’ Entertainment β€’ goskagit.com
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The Ultimate Draft Pick: CMU Showcases the Winning Power of Sports Innovation

"Powering the Future of Sport: A Draft Week Showcase," was a sports-themed day of engaging discussions, live robotics demonstrations and industry innovations on AI’s extraordinary potential to transform the future of sports.

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Tensions rise between Nuggets, Timberwolves ahead of Game 3

The war of words is picking up between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets.

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Wilson's final 2026 NFL mock draft: What I'm hearing with Round 1 one day away

One last projection of the top 32 picks as teams finalize plans for the first round

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Apr 22 β€’ 7:00 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
Keldon Johnson wins NBA Sixth Man of the Year after breaking Manu GinΓ³bili's Spurs record for bench points

The 2020 Draft pick found a valuable role for himself off the bench

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Apr 22 β€’ 6:19 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
2026 NFL mock draft 9.2: Do Cowboys target WR with their 1st-round picks after George Pickens negotiations stall?
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Apr 22 β€’ 5:19 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Sean Plankey, Trump’s Pick to Lead Cybersecurity Agency, Withdraws His Nomination

Confirmation for the nominee, Sean Plankey, had been pending in the Senate for over a year.

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Apr 22 β€’ 5:16 PM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ nytimes.com
Buffalo Bills Mock Draft: Could WR edge out defense early?

This is one of the more interesting Buffalo Bills drafts to project in recent years, beginning with the No. 26 overall pick.

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Apr 22 β€’ 2:09 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ spectrumlocalnews.com
Would you accept any of these No. 1 pick offers?

Yes, the NFL draft is a day away and the Las Vegas Raiders are fully expected to take Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall draft pick. It would be stunning if the Raiders trade the pick, but, anything is possible and let’s some some fun. Using the Pro Football Network draft simulator, […]

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Apr 22 β€’ 1:02 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Iowa Senate blocks confirmation of Larry Johnson as director of Health and Human Services

Iowa Senate Democrats voted against confirming Gov. Kim Reynolds' pick to lead the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, citing transparency concerns.

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Apr 22 β€’ 10:04 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ kcci.com
NFL Draft 2026: Running back may be devalued, but the safest pick is probably Jeremiyah Love
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Apr 22 β€’ 10:00 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Will Iraq’s Shia bloc overcome obstacles to pick the next PM?

The Shia-led Coordination Framework must nominate a prime minister by Sunday, as required by the constitution.

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Apr 22 β€’ 9:42 AM EDT β€’ Politics β€’ aljazeera.com
2026 NFL Draft: Every team's most ideal pick in Round 1

Here's the player each team would like to select in the first round to address biggest need

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Apr 22 β€’ 9:17 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
NFL Draft targets for teams without a first-round pick in 2026

If your favorite team doesn't have a first-round pick, don't worry, we have the best targets for your second or third round picks.

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Apr 22 β€’ 7:00 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
World Cup 2026: Pick your favourite kits from the tournament

BBC Sport has highlighted some of the most interesting kits which will be seen at this summer's World Cup. Pick your favourites.

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Apr 22 β€’ 2:06 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ bbc.com
Florida's Thomas Haugh forgoes NBA Draft, returning for senior season

Haugh was projected as a lottery pick in this year's draft.

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Apr 21 β€’ 1:36 PM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ sports.yahoo.com
Data centers are dealing hidden damage to environmental and public healthβ€”costing the economy $25 billion every year

In the murky economics of data centers, local communities get to pick up the tab too.

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Apr 21 β€’ 1:31 PM EDT β€’ Health β€’ fortune.com
Zeldin picks leader for EPA’s new science office

A vast reorganization of the office last year ended its larger research program and spurred the departure of hundreds of scientists.

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Apr 21 β€’ 1:16 PM EDT β€’ Science β€’ eenews.net
Biggest draft bust for every NFL team: The picks franchises still regret

From can't-miss prospects to cautionary tales, a team-by-team look at the draft decisions that aged the worst

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Apr 21 β€’ 11:12 AM EDT β€’ Sports β€’ cbssports.com
Former Surgeon General Backs CDC Nominee, But Questions Remain on Vaccines

By HealthDay Staff HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, April 21, 2026 (HealthDay News) β€” A former U.S. surgeon general is weighing in on the president’s pick to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calling Dr. Erica Schwartz highly qualified while warning of some potential ...

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Apr 21 β€’ 10:50 AM EDT β€’ Health β€’ usnews.com
Shaky political science: using "simulated" elections over real-world elections

[Dear DSOS readers – this article is the latest in our β€œShaky Political Science” series. In our 38 page report, β€œShaky political β€˜science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting,” released in early December, we examined over 40 studies focused on ranked choice voting. We found that many of these studies suffered from puzzling research methodologies, poorly constructed surveys, unrealistic simulated elections, cherry picked data, and faulty analyses that often were contradicted by results from real-world elections (a link to our full paper is here). Here are links to the first three articles in our series: the first one summarizing the overall results of our report, the second one analyzing a study co-authored by University of Minnesota academic Larry Jacobs, which was one of the most error-prone of all the research we reviewed in our report, and a third article showing an admirable example of two political scientists holding two other political scientists accountable for their flawed, sloppy research]. In this fourth article in our β€œShaky Political Science” series, we shine a spotlight on seven studies that were web-hosted and funded by New America’s Political Reform Program and its Electoral Reform Research Group (the ERRG is an ad hoc committee headed by New America’s Political Reform Program and joined by the American Enterprise Institute, the Unite America Institute and Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law). This research consortium has been led by Lee Drutman, senior fellow with New America’s Political Reform Program. These seven studies are simply not credible from any objective standard about how political β€œscience” is supposed to illuminate our understanding of either ranked choice voting or politics in general. The feature that six of these seven studies have in common is that they all used surveys – artificial, simulated elections -- to attempt to say something cogent or interesting about ranked choice voting (RCV) elections. None of them used real world data from actual RCV elections – either the 1000+ elections in the US or the many thousands of elections from places like Australia, Ireland and elsewhere where RCV has been used for 100 years. While a few of these studies conclude with some mixed positives about RCV, our analysis here is content neutral. The idea that, with a political reform like RCV, you can ask respondents in a mock, artificial election to vote with that method, with only the barest of explanation about how RCV works or its likely impacts (i.e. no spoiler candidates, majority winners, voters liberated to pick their favorite candidates, coalition-building), and then ask them their thoughts/reactions about voting in that system, with fake candidates and no real campaigning, no real exposure to an actual election or actual candidates, rests on some very puzzling assumptions. The findings of these seven studies actually are contradicted by the findings from many other studies based on real-world RCV elections. These New America studies also failed to list the real-world RCV studies in their own citations, instead including those studies that reinforced their conclusions. The seven studies featured in this article were chosen because they form a cohesive cohort which precisely illustrates one of the main points of our research paper, namely that using surveys, i.e. artificial elections, or mathematical/theoretical models, instead of real-world data, is in fact β€œshaky political science.” Below are summaries of our analysis of five of the seven New America studies. You can read our complete analysis of all seven studies at our paper, β€œShaky political β€˜science’ misses mark on ranked choice voting.” Choosing to β€œVote As Usual” by Andre Blais, Carolina Plescia, and Semra Sevi. New America. (Blais et al., 2021). This study, web-hosted and funded by New America’s Political Reform Program and its Electoral Reform Research Group, used two surveys in which respondents completed ballots for simulated elections using plurality, approval, RCV and point (Score) voting. In both cases the authors provided the respondents with only minimal explanation of each method. For example, the entire explanation for RCV was β€œFor this vote, rank the candidates from your first to your last choice (you do not need to rank them all). This is called the ranked vote.” That’s it. The study did not provide any context or explanation to survey respondents about why she/he might want to rank multiple candidates. Participants were not even told that ballots would be tabulated using an β€œinstant” runoff, not to mention any description of RCVs ability to eliminate the spoiler effect or liberate voters to rank their favorite candidates without fear of helping the β€œgreater evil” candidate to win. That’s like taking an iPhone back in time to 1970 and asking someone if they like it better than their rotary phone without explaining how it works. Their first survey targeted states that held 2020 Super Tuesday Democratic primaries and used the real candidates’ names in the survey; the second survey used fictitious candidates. In other words, they surveyed respondents who had only ever participated in plurality elections, had no history or background with using RCV or any of the other methods, had no clue about its likely impacts, and did not communicate how the alternative methods would be counted, and then asked them: β€œHow satisfied are you with using each system?” Predictably, the winner was plurality elections, the system used for president, Congress, gubernatorial and state legislative elections – in other words, the method they have been using, year after year, all their voting lives. With so little explanation of RCV and its impacts, this study is simply not credible in discovering anything useful about real-world RCV elections. It merely shows that a basic voter education campaign is needed when adopting a new election system. Additionally, the result contradicts many other post-election surveys following real RCV elections, asking opinions from voters who had just participated in a RCV election, that showed a great deal of satisfaction with RCV (see details on that in Studies 22-25 in our paper, as well as the four studies cited in the review for Study 28). Share Other studies on β€œsatisfaction” and β€œunderstanding” make similar mistakes, in terms of basing their surveys on inadequate explanation to respondents and lack of education about context. How could any survey ever hope to measure accurately, in essence simulate a real-world election, without actual campaigning candidates, the media writing about those candidates, organizations endorsing candidates and voters being inundated with crucial information? More than anything, what these β€œstudies” based on surveys show is that if you ask voters about something they don’t know very much about, and fail to adequately educate them, their responses will unsurprisingly reflect their confusion. Equally puzzling is that New America’s Electoral Reform Research Group, headed by political scientist Lee Drutman, found this to be a credible enough study that they not only published it but highlighted it in Drutman’s own discussion of research related to ranked choice voting. This pattern was repeated in study after study featured by New America’s Electoral Reform Research Group. For example in Ranked-Choice Voting and Political Expression: Voter Guides Narrow the Gap between Informed and Uninformed Citizens by Cheryl Boudreau, Jonathan Colner, and Scott MacKenzie, the researchers based their analysis on a survey which found that respondents who were asked to vote in a simulated RCV election, with minimal explanation of RCV or how it works, displayed less evidence of being informed about how to use RCV effectively, with the least informed voters ranking fewer candidates. As pointed out under the study above, in a real election voters are informed by a wide variety of methods, including public education by the election administration, by interested political groups, the media, and the candidates themselves who benefit from voters being aware of how to vote in the new system. In Support for Ranked-Choice Voting across Race and Partisanship by Joseph Anthony, David C. Kimball, Jack Santucci and Jamil Scott, the researchers used respondents from different parties and races voting in simulated plurality and RCV elections, who indicated their satisfaction with each voting method. Instead of using real world election results, the authors fell back on the easy, armchair and less reliable academic research methodology of making up mock elections. As with the other studies, little explanation was given of how RCV works or what its implications might be (electing majority winners or eliminating spoilers, for example). Unsurprisingly, this study found that respondents were not very satisfied with RCV. However, when the authors added an explanation that RCV has a tendency to elect more women and people of color, they found that this greater explanation increased the preference for RCV. The more voters were familiar with it, and the more they understood potential positive impacts – surprise! -- the more they were open to switching away from the status quo. Of note, the results from this study are thoroughly contradicted by a number of other studies whose data was obtained from real RCV elections with real voters. Those studies show a great deal of satisfaction with RCV. More β€œfake election” research An interesting wrinkle on this β€œresearch by fake elections” approach, which only served to illustrate how unreliable such β€œresearch” can become, was taken in Ranked-Choice Voting, Runoff, and Democracy: Insights from Maine and Other U.S. States by Joseph Cerrone and Cynthia McClintock_,_ also web-hosted and funded by New America’s ERRG. It gets high marks for creativity, but an eye-roll for thinking this could possibly add anything meaningful to our understanding of real world RCV elections. This study tried to determine whether RCV, plurality or two-round runoff elections provided greater voter satisfaction and acceptance of election results. To determine that, the authors conducted a survey asking if voters were satisfied with a fictional newspaper report of an election, with three different versions given to respondents – plurality, runoff and RCV, with variations of Republican/Democrat winners and variations of β€œcome-from-behind” winners,” i.e. candidates not initially in first place but who win the β€œrunoff.” Again, a minimal explanation of RCV or how it works was given, and the survey showed that respondents had the greatest unfamiliarity with RCV than the other methods. The unsurprising result? Respondents were much more satisfied with β€œcome-from-behind” victories in a traditional two-round runoff election than in RCV, even though RCV is also a runoff system but with a single round of counting. Interestingly, the dissatisfaction with RCV disappeared for those who were more familiar with RCV. In fact, among those respondents who were β€œvery familiar” with RCV, they were equally satisfied with RCV, runoff and plurality. Surprise, surprise. Again, what this study revealed, more than anything, is not only the inadequacy of the explanation for RCV given by the authors of this study, but the failure of the research format itself, thinking that such an artificial mock election could somehow simulate what actually happens in the real world in a real RCV election. Those four studies reviewed above are fitting examples of inadequate and shaky political β€œscience.” Other studies reviewed in our paper from the New America/Electoral Reform Research Group cohort which also used mock elections included: Ranked-Choice Voting is an Acquired Taste by Joseph Anthony and David C. Kimball. New America. (Anthony et al., 2021). Ranked-Choice Voting is No Refuge for Extreme Candidates by Melissa Baker. New America. (Baker, 2021). Also included in this New America cohort is Does Ranked-Choice Voting Reduce Racial Polarization? by Yuki Atsusaka and Theodore Landsman, which actually did use real-world election results data but applied an odd and unconventional methodology to the data which relied on shaky assumptions and non-real-world scenarios that were too divorced from reality. To determine levels of β€œracially polarized voting,” the researchers imagined β€œethnic parties,” by which they mean political parties for each ethnic group, which was especially odd since the election data they were using came from nonpartisan RCV races. But then they made an even odder assumption, namely that since race and ethnic characteristics of studied voters were not available, the authors tried to infer that information based on who voters selected and the racial make-up of voters in each district. This amounted to little more than vague and ambiguous guesswork dressed up with a bunch of mathematical equations used to give it a veneer of scientific appearance. Indeed, it seemed to assume racial polarization in order to prove racial polarization. Based on this questionable methodology, the authors concluded that RCV doesn’t reduce racial polarization. But the premise of this study missed an obvious reality: since RCV incentivizes more candidates to run and can result in more diverse fields of candidates, one would expect more racially-polarized voting in voters’ top rankings, not less, because more voters would have someone on that ballot who represents their racial or ethnic identity and more freedom to vote for their real first choice. By encouraging more diverse candidates and eliminating the spoiler effect, RCV facilitates voting for a favorite candidate of your own race and then selecting a second choice with the best likelihood of winning. The real measure is what voters do with their additional rankings – do they consider other candidates and vote β€œfor the best of the rest”? This study didn’t tell us anything useful about that. But readily available data shows this is common in real RCV elections, and candidates act on this knowledge by engaging with voters outside their racial group. So the authors of this study failed to consider or account for what actually happens in real-world elections, and their conclusions are tainted by this failure. New America has contributed a great deal over the past 2.5 decades to our understanding of many policy areas, including politics and political reform (full disclosure: Steven Hill, one of the authors of this article and of the β€œShaky Political Science” research paper and series, is a former senior fellow and former director of New America’s political reform program, 2005-2010). So it was especially disappointing that New America funded and published such a large batch of dubious studies about ranked choice voting. The stated praiseworthy goal of its Electoral Reform Research Group was to inspire new academic research about ranked choice voting that would shed light and help the public better understand the impacts of RCV. Instead, the ERRG research did just the opposite. It produced dubious research that created more confusion and misinformation. In so doing, New America’s political reform program contributed to β€œshaky political science.” Steven Hill and Paul Haughey Share Upgrade to $5 subscription Thanks for reading DemocracySOS, a reader-supported digital portal for the pro-democracy movement. Subscribe for only $5 per month to receive full benefits and to support our work. Subscribe

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