white house? that's a theory advanced by many observe of the candidate debates. now a study by the m.i.t. election lab may provide an answer. more than half of the participants were given a news snippet that portrayed a more progressive ideology that emerged at the debates so far, including policies as decriminalizing border crossings, expanding undocumented immigrants' access to benefit services, replacing the health system with a government-run system and establishing free college education for all children from working class families. the other half of the participants read about unrelated topics. all of the participants then recorded how they plan to vote in 2020. and what they found doesn't bode well for the progressive shift of the 2020 field. as the research associate points out, quote, when deciding between mr. trump and democratic