Oh hey! We have some new polling stories that just dropped. Gonna do a little ~thread~ here with some of mine.
This one is particularly notable in a pandemic where unemployment is still around 7% nationwide and new stimulus $$ is in limbo: businessinsider.com/insider-poll-e…
There’s been more focus since 2016 on how voting habits split by education level, but less so on turnout than the GOP consolidating non-college white voters under Trump: businessinsider.com/insider-poll-2…
Then there’s likelihood to vote by race relative to the mean voter, and this is something AAPI political groups have been working on for a long time: businessinsider.com/insider-poll-a…
Cotton on speculation around a potential 2024 run:
"I expect I'll be back to New Hampshire again in the future," Cotton told Insider. "But for right now, especially with 15 days until this election ... we are focused 100% on these elections coming up." businessinsider.com/tom-cotton-lay…
Cotton was campaigning for candidates down 9 and 15 points in the RCP avg, but he had the benefit of getting to meet some of the NH GOP movers & shakers who can fundraise, host events & even future campaign staff in their homes. businessinsider.com/tom-cotton-lay…
.@AOC Twitch stream tonight is a breakthrough in political messaging.
To put her 438k peak viewers in perspective:
- That would put her at 6th all time on Twitch
- More viewers than some cable news shows
- About the population of Kansas City, MO businessinsider.com/aoc-twitch-str…