Earlier this month, Vox quoted me in an article that polled various academics about Bernie Sanders’s chances in a general election. My opinion is that Sanders would be at least as strong a Democratic candidate as Hillary Clinton, and perhaps a stronger one.

A few weeks ago, I took a closer look at the familiar case against Sanders on electability grounds: “He would be another McGovern”; “his lead on the GOP in early polls is meaningless”; “he’s too liberal for American voters”; etc. These arguments against Sanders, I argued, rested on a number of faulty assumptions about history, demographics, polling, and ideology.

Vox reporter Jeff Stein interviewed two of the political scientists whose work I cited. I’m far from an expert on presidential politics — or political science generally — and I admit I was a little concerned that my arguments might be exploded by scholars with a much deeper background on these issues.