Election Post-Mortem for the KSU Retirees Association (KSURA, with Mike Ensley). “The Campaigns and the Polls.” November 13, 2024.
Department Colloquium, KSU (with Mike Ensley), Feb. 29, 2024.
Department Colloquium, KSU (with Mike Ensley), Oct. 2, 2023.
Forum at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland. “Political Parties, Polarization and the Future (with Jonathan Entin). https://uucleveland.org/events/frank-talk-on-political-parties-polarization-and-the-future/. November 7, 2021.
Political Behavior Journal Blog. “Views About the Religious Composition of the Parties Affect Polarization.” https://politicalbehavior.wordpress.com/2019/09/30/views-about-the-religious-composition-of-the-parties-affect-polarization/. October 7, 2019.
Religion in Public Blog. “Views About the Religious Composition of the Parties Affect Polarization.” https://religioninpublic.blog/2019/10/01/views-about-the-religious-composition-of-the-parties-affect-polarization/. October 7, 2019.
North Philly Notes Blog Post about The Evangelical Crackup? https://templepress.wordpress.com/2018/10/17/the-evangelical-crackup-the-future-of-the-evangelical-republican-coalition/. October 17, 2018.
Religion in Public Blog Post about The Evangelical Crackup? https://religioninpublic.blog/2018/10/11/the-evangelical-crackup-the-future-of-the-evangelical-republican-coalition/. October 11, 2018.
Poynter Ethics Workshop 2017: Fake or Fact. Invited to participate on a panel about fake news and the 2016 election. September 21, 2017.
London School of Economics Blog Post. “‘Mine is a likable rogue, yours is a degenerate criminal.’ When it comes to ‘dirty campaign tricks’ partisans tend to ignore bad news about their own.” with Michael Ensley.
“Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans.” Invited talk. Fresno Pacific University. February 8, 2017.
“Impolite Conversation #17: The “God Gap” and Final 2016 Campaign Thoughts.” Podcast on Marginalia, A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel. November 1 2016.
“Colloquium on Gender Bias in Politics.” Kent State University, School of Communication Studies.
November 4, 2016.
“The Scientific Study of Voters: Culture Wars, Gender Gaps, and Other Divisions in the 2016 Presidential Electorate.” Science Cafe, Sponsored by Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. October 13, 2016.
“Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans.” Yoder Public Affairs Lecture. Goshen College, Goshen, IN. September 13, 2016.
“Why Polling Still Matters.” Kent State University Politically Speaking Forum. April 25, 2016.
The Plot: Politics Decoded (official blog of the European Political Science Association), “Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans? A New Cambridge University Press Book,” Posted July 10, 2015.
Graduate Student Colloquium on the Job Market, Kent State University, Department of Political Science, Spring 2014.
Public Affairs Discussion Group, “Godless Democrats and Pious Republicans: Party Activists and the Mythical God Gulf,” Case Western Reserve University, Center for Policy Studies, Fall 2014.
Research Colloquium, “Interest Group Opinion in American Politics,” Kent State University, Department of Political Science, Spring 2013.
Thursday Discussion Group, “New Media, Civic Learning & Civic Action Among Young People,” Brigham Young University, Department of Political Science, Spring 2013 (Co-Author Presented).
Claassen, Ryan L. and John B. Ryan. November 13, 2020. “Why did the polls undercount Trump voters? It’s not because of ‘shy’ Trump voters, our research suggests.” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
Claassen, Ryan L. Michael J. Ensley, and John B. Ryan. November 25, 2020. “Why so many Republican officials went along with Trump’s fraud claims: My party is trying to win. Your party is trying to cheat.” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
Paul A. Djupe, Jake Neiheisel, Andrew R. Lewis, Ryan Claassen, and Anand Sokhey. September 15, 2017. “Roger Stone says there would be an 'insurrection' if Trump were impeached. Is he right?” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
Claassen, Ryan L. October 16, 2015. “Ohio voters support and oppose legalizing marijuana. Wait, what?” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
Claassen, Ryan L. and Michael Ensley. February 5, 2016. “Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz of dirty tricks. Will it matter?” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
Claassen, Ryan L. and John B. Ryan. October 20, 2016. “Will sexism be the U.S. presidential election’s November surprise? Here’s what we found.” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature.
WKYC (Cleveland’s NBC affiliate). About invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. January 7, 2021. https://www.wkyc.com/video/news/politics/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-25th-amendment-and-how-it-works/95-f241ec9a-81b5-49e8-92c1-fc91addebe37
Record-Courier. “Kent State study sheds light on bias and perception of political misdeeds.” https://www.record-courier.com/story/news/2021/01/07/kent-state-politics-trump-biden-election-capitol-riot-protest/6561801002/. January 7, 2021.
Election Night Coverage on WKSU (Kent State University NPR affiliate). November 3, 2020.
Winnepeg Free Press Article by John Longhurst. “Why evangelicals keep backing Trump.” https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/why-evangelicals-keep-backing-trump-500742821.html. November 17, 2018.
Religion and Politics Newsletter, Washington University. “What is the future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition?” https://religionandpolitics.org/2018/11/13/what-is-the-future-of-the-evangelical-republican-coalition/. November 14, 2018.
Cover story of Newsweek by Nina Burleigh, “Evangelical Christians Helped Elect Donald Trump, but Their Time as a Major Political Force Is Coming to an End.” See: http://www.newsweek.com/2018/12/21/evangelicals-republicans-trump-millenials-1255745.html. December 13, 2018.
Newsweek article by Nina Burleigh, “AFTER MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CAN DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS STILL COUNT ON YOUNG EVANGELICALS? WHITE CHRISTIAN VOTING BLOC IS SHRINKING.” See: https://www.newsweek.com/midterms-trump-evangelicals-politics-1205987. November 8, 2018.
Election Night Coverage on WKSU (Kent State University NPR affiliate). November 6, 2018.
New Books Network Podcast About The Evangelical Crackup?: https://newbooksnetwork.com/paul-djupe-and-ryan-l-claassen-eds-the-evangelical-crackup-the-future-of-the-evangelical-republican-coalition-temple-up-2018/. Paul Djupe interview, October 2018.
Election Night Coverage on WKSU (Kent State University NPR affiliate). November 8, 2016.
Sound of Ideas on WCPN (Cleveland’s NPR affiliate). October 10, 2016. “Second Presidential Debate and The Science of Voters.”
Sound of Ideas on WCPN (Cleveland’s NPR affilitate). March 21, 2016. “Are polls accurate?”
WKYC (Cleveland’s NBC affiliate). March 1, 2016. Television interview about Super Tuesday.
The Globe and Mail. January 22, 2016. “Trump’s halo effect extends to evangelicals Republicans.”
The Akron Beacon Journal. February 2, 2016. “Be careful painting Ohio with Iowan politics.”
The Washington Post, Monkey Cage Feature. September 4, 2015. “How Democrats became secular and Republicans became religious. (It’s not what you think.)”
WKYC (Cleveland’s NBC affiliate). October 13, 2015. Television interview and online story.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (front page, print edition). October 13, 2015. “Ohio marijuana legalization ballot issue would pass if election held today, Kent State poll finds.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer. October 14, 2015. “Kent State poll: Legalization, anti-monopoly issues both could pass.”
The Toledo Blade. October 14, 2015. “Ohio could face ‘constitutional’ crisis over marijuana issue.”
The Akron Beacon Journal. October 14, 2015. “Kent State poll shows Ohioans favor Marijuana.
The Dayton Daily News. October 15, 2015. “Ohio could face ‘constitutional crisis’ over marijuana issue.”
The Kent State poll about Issue 2 and Issue 3 (of which I was a principal investigator) was also mentioned in additional stories where I was not quoted in The Columbus Dispatch, U.S. News and World Report, The Daily Beast, FiveThirtyEight, and others.
The Monkey Cage (now owned by the Washington Post). March 25, 2013. “How Activists Misrepresent the Groups They Purport to Speak For.”