#Majority

Timothy Burke

swarthmoreburke

Been pointing out again to students in my survey class that the National Party in South Africa won an election in 1948 with a minority of the popular vote among

Philip Soos

PhilipSoos

Observation One reason why the Greens will never obtain a large proportion of the vote is because they literally spend more time & effort enforcing the correct usage of gender

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softvenomsnake

now here’s the not hot take. it is quite possible that this kind of change is not what the majority of those in this country are ready for. change is

Phillip Blond

Phillip_Blond

Here in the UK we have a Conservative majority but the intellectual cupboard is bare - we have a few garbled thoughts on big data fused with poorly understood Hayek,

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

THREAD: Why Keir is right about the second referendum policy *with data*TLDR: Most leavers who defected from Lab would have done so anyway. But failing to back a PV would

Richard the disco hearted

Richard31331936

1/Much like the slaveholding states of the south before the Civil War, the GOP's platform seems to be, "we won't cooperate with the democrats on anything, and we'll undo anything

Andrew J. Padilla 🇵🇷

apadillafilm6

Puerto Rico should be whatever it wants. Pass it onhttps://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1276708538195349505 Since @AndrewYang is the #Data #Math guy? Let's talk numbers on Puerto Rico Statehood: In 2012 the headline was "Puerto

Thor Berger

bergerthor

New paper with @pengzell out in @SociusJournal on long-run trends in American intergenerational mobility Question: Are children increasingly becoming worse off than to their parents? Short answer: Not in terms

woke capital investment advisor machine

golikehellmachi

why doesn't biden do more to engage the people on this hellsite who, regularly, call him a sundowning, dementia-addled rapist? oh, well, if "your friends" are thinking it. a big

Dr Richard North

RichardAENorth

1. Hartlepool: The Tories have barely moved from their 2017 figure, and polled only 68 percent of their 1974 vote. The seat went because the Labour vote has collapsed to

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Any Democrat who uses the term “court packing” to describe expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court should be smacked upside the head. This is not only idiotic

Ashley

khyperia

notes on moving across the atlantic (mostly silly):there is a big difference between "using 24 hour time for just yourself, and people around you use 12 hour time" and "everyone

Kemi (they/them)

melanatedmomma

People gaslight fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sag) so hard and it’s honestly so detrimental to our mental health. But Idk if this is a conversation that non fire placements are

Antonia Okafor Cover

antonia_okafor

Some of y’all wonder why people go to the Left to discuss issues that actually impact people of color. A black woman cant talk about the very real fact that

Dr Muna Abdi #JusticeForShukri

Muna_Abdi_Phd

So many zoom discussions this week focussing on Racism (with majority White people in each session)... and I can't tell you how problematic some of those spaces are.[Thread] The amount

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. Did you wonder what Putin would get before the traitor from Queens is out of office? Now you know. @POTUS @RealDonaldTrump will be charged with treason in 2021. Let's