Seth Masket is professor of political science and Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver. He is the author, most recently, of Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020 and his research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and other peer-reviewed publications.. Professor Masket contributes regularly to the FiveThirtyEight and Mischiefs of Faction blogs.