The biggest miss for our baseline model of congressional election outcomes is 1948, when Democrats roared back from losing control in the midterm. It is popularly remembered that Truman campaigned against a do-nothing congress. Taft-Hartley and Farm subsidy changes were also unpopular. What were the salient Rep stances that congress? Any other explanations for Dem overperformance?

the average candidate is much older than the average citizen & young candidates perform less well than older candidates in both primaries and general elections; average House member is 20 years older than average American
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137942200110X

Partisan polarization on education policy issues has increased as partisans have increasingly adopted their party's views
https://edworkingpapers.org/sites/default/files/ai22-690.pdf

When given the option, people select into Fox News or MSNBC based on politics & then increasingly agree with their slant
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10776990221142877?casa_token=h0b7PjT2AlYAAAAA%3AaO-ghvhfry21oxlrjLez_2RLBtJS1MOMkPsTkXR6u4jKWC6QYESLPCpoU205HI_1cpW3qY1tP1wC

across 1,953 colleges & universities, Republican student groups are nearly as common as Democratic student groups. Both tend to be located at larger, wealthier, public schools that offer political science majors
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12864?casa_token=eraJplExfnsAAAAA%3AKrwKgdwN8iT3yMz9VI-uCgDXIXnqpnvwi9oJ9MBybsqYD1_EMWB81frHHX3ThXy2C_N1cO1FAhEmNg

Republicans made gains in House races across the country, continuing to improve in areas with more non-white voters & more culturally conservative voters, but suffered in swing races, especially when running MAGA candidates against moderate Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/upshot/2022-republicans-midterms-analysis.html

Enjoyed "The Lost Promise" on 60s campus radicalism & its legacy. Points to role of temporarily expanding academic job market & confluence of student protest with academics seeking to reshape social science & humanities disciplines.
https://www.hookedlansing.com/book/9780226200859