Note to county election sites: If you have a fancy precinct webmap etc, that's great and all, but then that means you have the precinct data in a machine-readable format, so can you just...also share that, thank you, Xenocrypt.
(Sometimes one can do this anyway with view-source and such, but...extra work.)
Chester County, Pennsylvania went with "let's make each precinct a separate PDF".
It's one thing if you're like Connecticut and going off hand-written reports a carrier raccoon brought in. But if you HAVE a back end, just link the back end.
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Are India and China really so much more internally and uniformly dense than anywhere else, or is that some kind of Census boundary translation artifact?
I think this is actually how cartogram-type maps can be misleading in the opposite way as normal maps. Asia is "just" 60% of global population, you know, a lot, but not 80% or 90%.
Like yeah the first map makes it look like nobody lives in Clinton counties, but the second map makes it look like EVERYONE lives in Clinton counties, and that's wrong, too.
"Crazy Rich Asians" only nominated one of the three people in this widely-used press photo, sorry, Koh Chieng Mun and Nico Santos. But sure nominate Harry Shum Jr. for his two-second credit cookie cameo.
Do publications like fact-check articles and editorials on electoral politics for basic logic and accuracy before publishing or nah. I mean feel free to DM me if you need that done.
Like if you're talking about down-ballot Democrats under-performing Biden, maybe don't have your main examples be Starr County and Zapata County, where they over-performed Biden, @jacobinmag. That kind of thing.
Or publishing, in the New York Times, that "the number of registered voters in Georgia has decreased since 2012", in August 2018.
Haven't clicked behind the paywall but I am skeptical of the initial framing that Democrats' main problem in state legislative races was "Biden/downballot R voters".
They mention a district here and there that voted Biden/R, but there's nothing comprehensive...
What's the counterfactual? Is it "what if literally every Biden voter voted D straight down the ballot, AND Ds also had their Trump voters who voted D downballot"? IE, "what if Ds won TX-24 AND still held WI-03"? Or is it "what if no ticket-splitting"?
So from what I can tell, people like "The Mandalorian" because of its stand-alone episodes and disconnection from the main "Star Wars" universe, and they're also very excited it's bringing in famous characters and building an overarching story?
I remember when I liked "Arrow" because it was refreshingly grounded, practical, and limited...
And then of course they used that to "world-build" the complete opposite of that. I guess it was popular for a while but it never really fit for me (especially since the CW's budget and production style was uh, a little more suited to grounded, limited plots).