are. no wonder, we re talking about for instance cutting social security and limiting eligibility and medicare rather than say, raising social security benefits and lowering the medicare age. the findings find so much about the behavior of politicians it may be no less than the rosetta stone of american politician. joining me, jeff smith an assistant professor at the milano, the new school for management and urban policy. and chris govern, a graduate student. and one of the co-authors along with david brockman of the university of california berkley about their constituents. obviously, i love this paper because it s like a huge, huge hit of confirmation bias for me. so thank you for providing data which maps up my presifting bias. walk us through how you did this. the data that this is built on is fascinating. what do you do here? thanks, chris. in august, we teamed up with