“…Because one can make state-level estimates of policy-specific public opinion with as little as a single survey, the method has been employed by dozens of scholars studying a wide range of issues, including same-sex marriage (Lax and Phillips 2009a; Lewis and Jacobsmeier 2017), ideology and partisanship Koch 2015, 2013;Pacheco 2011), immigration (Butz and Kehrberg 2016), gender mood (Koch and Thomsen 2017), Supreme Court nominees and decisions (Caldarone et al 2009;Kastellec et al 2010;Franko 2017), income inequality (Franko 2017), roll call voting (Kastellec et al 2010;Kastellec et al 2015;Krimmel et al 2016), the Affordable Healthcare Act (Pacheco and Maltby 2017), smoking bans (Pacheco 2012), abortion (Pacheco 2014), death penalty (Pacheco 2014), and welfare spending (Pacheco 2014), to name a few. In fact, MRP is "emerging as a widely used gold standard for estimating preferences from national surveys" (Selb and Munzert 2011, 456).…”