Texas. Senior director of polling at YouGov. Adviser to Young Men Research Initiative.
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As we get closer to Nov, that share of Republicans who "somewhat approve" of something Trump does becomes more and more important. It gives us intel about where the wind is going out of MAGA's sales. We are within reach of some big wins and a few demotivated Rs could make a huge difference.
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The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...
The share of people who are actually amped up for this appears to be ~10 percent of people. You are allowed to treat them as weird.
Look, it's fine not to be paying attention. But you don't have to insinuate nobody else is either every time you learn something that has been a major political issue in some quarters for awhile already. You can literally just help a story get out there!
5,000 retweets for "this thing everyone in Texas is talking about - why am I the only one talking about it"
Two major headlines over the past 24hrs: "trump's war causes inflation" and "trump's immigration and tax policies drain Social Security"
Trump takes credit for everything. He is also, unfortunately, an idiot.
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In case this is helpful for anyone's sanity today, just a reminder that per recent YouGov data (n ~ 9.2k), a majority of Americans do in fact think this is all pretty stupid
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Probably the last substantial piece of legislation they'll get done this year, the GOP replenished ICE funding that drew down during the Democrats' 115-day shutdown. Every vulnerable Republican gets to spend the summer trying to convince people ICE has done nothing wrong
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