Brendan Nyhan

New NYT: How Walker dodged the inauthentic label

From my new Upshot column:

It may be called waffling, flip-flopping or evolving, but every four years new presidential candidates find themselves adjusting inconvenient positions that might hinder their bid for the nomination.

What’s striking, though, is how some candidates who make these changes are portrayed as inauthentic by party elites and primary voters, and others — like Scott Walker — aren’t.