Matthew V. Hibbing is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, at the University of California, Merced.Matthew Mettler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of Illinois.Jeffery J. Mondak is the James M. Benson Chair in Public Issues and Civic Leadership in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior, and Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment and the coeditor of Fault Lines: Why the Republicans Lost Congress.Isaiah R. Raynal is an independent scholar who received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.