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1000 follower milestone map! The Northeast Corridor has long been the most urbanized area in the country. Though the region has remained firmly Democratic for decades, the GOP has made major inroads here in the Trump era. Here is a map of Harris' performance last year. A🧵 1/x
Happy Friday! In 1968, Virginia voters narrowly chose Richard Nixon for President. Like the rest of the South, sharp racial divides split the state's historically large Democratic electorate. Nixon had considerable support in the suburbs, medium-sized cities, and the Valley.
NEW--Not every politician sounds like the party they belong to. Some post like partisans and vote like moderates, or the reverse. Using @CivicTracker data, we’ve built a metric that quantifies partisanship in posts. How politicians talk online tells its own story. Link below ⬇️
NEW -- Does posting win elections? Probably not, but now we have the data to test the theory. Our latest analysis uses @CivicTracker and @SplitTicket_’s WAR scores to explore whether politicians’ Twitter habits correlate with electoral overperformance. Link below. ⬇️
Since June 29th, House Republicans have posted slightly more often from official accounts on X than their Democratic colleagues. Total Posts by Party: 🔴 Republican: 13,892 🔵 Democrat: 12,275
The window seat on a plane is an incredible modern blessing. Imagine our ancestors getting to take in such a view. They would have been stunned, speechless. And yet, some close the shade and do what? My God. I can't understand those who shut the shade, and shut out the world.
I love the window seat
Will never not be mind-bending that Clinton won FL-26 by a healthy margin in 2016 This district voted for Trump by 35 points last year!
The last time the Democrats won Ohio in the House was in 2008, when they won 10 House seats and 51% of the vote. The Dems flipped three seats, the 1st, 15th, and 16th districts.
The 1998 Senate Election in Pennsylvania saw incumbent GOP Senator Arlen Specter win reelection in a landslide. Specter was pro-choice and endorsed by the AFL-CIO. His Democratic opponent was pro-life, and, as shown by the map, virtually unknown outside of Somerset County.
Long time since I made a map - but as promised - the amended and corrected precinct-level results of the 1984 election in Nassau County. Back then, LI was still wealthy but far less diverse. Reagan won the county by 24, only losing a few Jewish and nonwhite enclaves. Happy 4th!
green expert here: this is a good one
ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green
quiz time: these (monochrome) lines represent the rail transit of which city?
Last night, Zohran Mamdani outperformed Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s densest neighborhoods, while Cuomo won in the farther outer boroughs. We mapped the election in 3D to show where each candidate’s support was concentrated. 🟠 Mamdani 432,305 (43.5%) 🔵 Cuomo 361,840 (36.4%)
🚨 NYC precinct results are on our website. You can filter by borough, neighborhood, and Assembly District. Link below.