¹ Readers may recall the effort in the 2000 Presidential election, only half in jest, to get Democrats from “safe” states (e.g., California) to become temporary residents of important “swing” states (e.g., Florida). That presumed, of course, that having arrived there they would have had the slightest chance of understanding the Florida ballots.

² A standard test might be this: Were newly elected Republican representatives more or less likely to have been intransigent (e.g., to have opposed the first Boehner Plan) the more securely they were able to return to their prior profession with little economic loss (and hence objectively could be more immune to sanctions)?

³ See http://www.aapor.org/standards.asp

⁴ One widely accepted guide to such norms is given by the American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics, particularly Section III. http://www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/upload/AAA-Ethics-Code-2009.pdf