Candidates, Show Some Dignity Please

This year, with the help of the research group More in Common, we formed an 80-person panel to represent the full range of American political opinion. That panel has been scoring political speech since March – with huge cross-partisan agreement on the presence of dignity and contempt in political speech, no matter who is speaking or what they are saying. Even very partisan members of the panel are able to acknowledge contempt when it comes from their side and dignity when it comes from the other side.