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I’ve been studying congressional emails to constituents for 15 years − and found these 4 trends after scanning 185,222 of them

  • Written by Lindsey Cormack, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
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Republicans in Congress use taxpayer-funded email messages to contact constituents more often, and perhaps more effectively, than their Democratic counterparts.

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