Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to partisan factual questions
"For example, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say that the deficit rose during the Clinton administration; Democrats are more likely to say that inflation rose under Reagan."<p>These are both really tricky questions, because the questions described are derivatives of derivatives!  The deficit is the time derivative of the debt; so it's possible that someone is hearing "did the debt rise during clinton" (which would be true).  Likewise, inflation is the derivative of the value of money.  So someone might be hearing "did things get more expensive over reagan" (which would also be true).  The deficit/debt one is really tricky since they both start with the letter D and even though I know the difference occasionally in conversation I switch the two.