In the last couple of days my 2014 article on non-citizen voting (coauthored with David Earnest and Gulshan Chattha) has received a great deal of attention as Donald Trump has been quoting from it  on the campaign trail.  Two important… Continue Reading →

Accuracy can be hard to find, particularly in the heat of a campaign season.  More recent reports contradict the headline accusation from Fund’s National Review piece that the Washington State mall killer Arcan Cetin was a non-citizen and a voter.  ICE… Continue Reading →

In the Virginia Pilot on Friday September 30th, 2016. I begin: STATE-LEVEL AND regional polling this election season reveals an intriguing transformation. Virginia is leaning more toward Democrat Hillary Clinton than many other swing states. Indeed, the Clinton campaign pulled major… Continue Reading →

I am one of four experts featured on the New York Times website. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/23/paul-ryan-the-hastert-rule-and-democracy-on-the-hill

Today the Monkey Cage Blog published an essay I wrote examining the ways my recently published (JOP October 2015) article on the consequences of the Hastert Rule can inform the current leadership debate in the House. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/20/by-insisting-on-the-hastert-rule-the-house-freedom-caucus-is-endangering-the-gop/

Welcome to my faculty web page, version 2.0.  The old page can still be accessed at www.odu.edu/~jrichman.