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Pundits, advocates and think tankers spend a lot of time arguing that a majority of Americans are on their side. And conservatives often inflate the popularity of their positions by claiming to represent “half” of all Americans. That's far from the truth. When they can’t do that, they focus on small subsets of voters and try to portray them as important or representative of a much broader set of people. This episode deconstructs two versions of this argument, including a particularly ham-fisted one from Bret Stephens. 

> Washington Post interactive map
> Cook Political Report interactive map
> Bret Stephens’s Worst Column Yet? (New Republic)
> The missing 100 million voters (Knight Foundation)
> Projecting eligible voters by state (UVA)
> The case for youth voting rights is better than you think (Medium)
> List of Trump 2016 rallies with attendance stats (Wikipedia)
> 2016 election results in NYC (ABC 7)
> 2016 exit polls (CNN)
> Chuck Schumer’s imaginary couple the Baileys (New Yorker)
> Joe Biden “Come On Man” compilation (Youtube)

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