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our new memo shows that the leading report purporting to show an important amount of illegal voting in georgia in the 2020 election is deeply flawed ( , )

ideas i will never actually pursue: someone should start a "journal of political datasets" where people can get more credit for finding, creating, documenting, organizing, improving, and/or explaining awesome datasets. so valuable to the profession and so under-rewarded.

fun fact: s kids go to a $30k/year private school where students are required to wear masks and the school does contact tracing. will he pull his kids out of this oppressive establishment?

feels like the majority of people who are 1) getting vaccinated and 2) fine with some (non-lockdown) safety requirements are getting ignored in political coverage because they don t scream and shout as much as the holdouts.

with embedded videos, graphics, and social media content, our new digital timeline of the 2020 presidential election provides clear examples of how presidential politics remain influenced by gender and race. explore the full timeline here:

while i'm here - please check out my article w on partisanship in the #metoo era! it helps explain some of why a) dem elites called on cuomo to resign, b) dem voters supported this, c) why we haven't seen in among republicans!

just wrapped a meeting detailing my uni s plan for fall term. for those comparing notes, here is the plan with some context / almost no comment: (1) all decisions based on expectation of vaccination (49% of county residents are fully vaxxed; governor has banned vax mandates)