#Electoral

1) Little thread: First, thanks to all of you for following. Unreal that 68,000 people care what I have to say.2) My analysis is almost solely done on actual data.
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Ok, a thread that is not about electoral politics but real life. Because this piece is an absolutely necessary read if you’re a white person who aspires to anti-racism.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/noose-found-on-gunmans-locker-at-milwaukee
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1/n: A slightly theoretical thread on the political economy of #farmersbill "passed" by the RS. In 1998 Utsa Patnaik wrote an essay called India’s Agrarian Economy & New Contradictions Following
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Ok, I ignored this for a couple of days but I can't now. Jill Lepore's article in the @washingtonpost is, in a word, wrong. It's just wrong. I don't mean
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Hotdog! Who's ready for the Sept Forecast Update. Y'all are gonna love it, bc it introduces a revised & better model created by @sam_epstein which expands on my OG vision:
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1) 2020 election odds 2) NOT POLITICAL ADVICE. NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. 3) What are the odds Trump is reelected? 4) There are lots of approaches here.You can read polls, as
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Thread: There seems to be a lot of people who really don’t understand what’s going on. For more than a year now the federal government has been compiling data on
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Several semi-related observations about Joe Biden. First... the polling data looks better for him than it did for Clinton. He's held a remarkably consistent lead. Clinton did not, and it
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My story about how Hungary has changed in the decade since Orban returned to power is in this weekend's @FTMag. I spoke to Hungarians who've been shaped & affected by
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Scène hallucinante de la nuit US: #Trump traite le chef de la minorité républicaine #McConnell de "fils de p.... crétin" devant 1 parterre de donateurs, élus et cadres républicains lors
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How should colleges and universities think about political learning in 2020? Some thoughts from this week’s new IDHE release, Election Imperatives 2020: 1/ First, consider the context of the moment:•
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Political labels get warped to suit whatever argument an individual is making in the moment so trying to solidify them is a fool's errand. Being a fool myself, I'll give
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Answering "We were founded as a republic, not a democracy. We are a republic, not a democracy," are like a libertarian manifestos.There is truth to the statement that we were
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Let's talk about the Irish far-right/neo-nazi telegram ecosystem.For our jumping-off point, let's take this list of channels that @gearoidmurphy_ shared.cw: violence, every kind of hatred This started out as an
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Is it conservatives who have been burning down cities, rioting and looting, attacking police officers, assaulting people for wearing certain hats?Is it conservatives who push the idea that America is
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Pues resulta que el PP presentó una proposición de ley orgánica en el congreso, que ha pasado desapercibida por el motivo que sea (jeje). Ley orgánica, es decir, si se
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