Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Voters Won’t Reward Democrats for Passing Lots of Laws

History shows that legislative productivity tends to bomb at the ballot box. (It’s the economy, stupid. And Biden’s popularity.)

January 27, 2021 at 12:30 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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What’s the relationship between legislative productivity and subsequent election outcomes?