#Electoral

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

There are two problems here: the power of name-recognition and incumbency -ok, 3 problems, because those are distinct but related; and the power of political partieshttps://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1316823249074913282 Name-recognitio

amy walter

amyewalter

Given our experiences in 2016, it’s fair to ask if we should take national polls all that seriously. I think of it this way: national polls can help get us

Kaitlin Byrd: Apocalypse Diarist

GothamGirlBlue

Just reminded my SO to fill out the census, so it feels like a good time to remind everyone: FILL OUT YOUR CENSUS BEFORE THE END OF THIS MONTH The

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

I’ve been trying to make sense of the extraordinarily mixed messages coming from college administrations that brought students back to campus but are now upbraiding them with all manner of

Randi Mayem Singer

rmayemsinger

Thread about Florida. Trump MUST win Florida, period. No model has him losing Florida and winning 270 electoral votes. None. And if Biden wins Floria by enough for the networks

Jonathan Ladd

jonmladd

Models of aggregate election results should be treated very cautiously. But this leaves out:1) The most prominent U.S. models: "Time for Change" and "Bread and Peace" were first published in

The Yung Hegelians

TheYungHegelian

If every internet leftist got together and voted for a candidate it's incredibly unlikely that that would change the outcome of the election. The radlib would say that this is

Hal Marshall

HalMarshall2309

“In the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, the belief was that politicians that vocally backed the effort would potentially pay fatal political prices. “The most recent fundraising reports filed with

Carwil Bjork-James

CarwilBJ

#BoliviaElections #EleccionesBolivia A year ago, a pause in first-round vote counting set off an explosion of street protest.While tensions remain high, there are some important differences in scenario this

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Raumdeuter_Role

Thread on my political orientation: Economically: I am predominantly a hard-core capitalist with some socialistic values. I believe heavily regulated monopolies would be best for most countries. There is

Catie Lilly

catielila

How far does #Taiwanese solidarity w/HK extend? After this HKer Tweeted frustration w/friends focused more on #Taiwan2020 v. #antiELABhk s/he's been inundated w/messages against the asylum bill (e.g. TW is

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kristenmchugh22

A brief word for the unintiated: Do you know how long the GOP has been baking disenfranchisement into the system? Let's start with the ULTRA-OBVIOUS stuff, shall we: in 2013,

Andrea Zanin

sexgeekAZ

A quick drop of my "no American politics" rule...On a surface level, I totally understand why folks might not want to vote for Biden/Harris. I wouldn't personally want to vote

Matthew Aaron Richmond

mattyrichy

Watching Brazil's crisis unfold "on the ground" during fieldwork in the peripheries of Rio & São Paulo, it's always struck me the that the public debate about Bolsonaro is completely

Sean

_Sean_________

Why is proportional representation a good idea?1. It means that *all* votes matter in elections, not just those for the candidate with the most number of votes. Why is proportional

Katherine Lawlor

Kat_Lawlor

Always a privilege to work with the brilliant @EvaKahan, this time on an assessment of the current state of #ISIS-militia competition in #Iraq’s Baghdad Belts from @TheStudyofWar:https://bit.ly/3nW54pP We argue that