1. Having accepted the limits of launching things during the week of Xmas- I've spent 2 days cleaning my living room.

Think about how dirty a house must be to need to spend 2 days cleaning 1 part of your house!

(Context: I'm doing it alone, part of my Xmas gift is 4 days
2. w/o the rest of my family, alone in the pandemic house. That's right, after 9 mths of day-after-day being in this house w my fellow ADHD-riddled housemates, I'm getting a 4 day kid break. But bc of the job transitioning, we don't have $ to afford cleaning help so I do all of
3. the housework. The hubs "chips in." And he is your go-to guy when the toilet clogs, washer breaks, or any other major job comes up., but like many MANY Gen X/Millennial women, egalitarianism is a cruel joke when it comes to housework and parenting. I have high hope for my
4. Zoomer counterparts though, and intend to dish out tons of advice on how to avoid my situation on the 'Stack (ultimately, do you divorce the father of your child over dishes? My hubs, rightly, gambles "no," the shrewd bastard!) And, as you might have noticed, I work a lot.
5. Any not working time is poured into my special needs son. So housework...yeah. Let's just say 2020 Operation Save America allowed actual grime to accrue in some places. So it is the at some point I HAD to hit pause & clean this house. This week is that pause- nevermind that
6. I'm also in the middle of launching the 2 things that will also pay my pills. The grime must go! I'm actually grateful the logo design place closed down bc that's what started the focus on cleaning the house. I no longer have to block the delivery driver's view into the house!
Oh! I wanted to add that I've been streaming this fantastic audiobook I somehow stumbled across- a serious investigation of medieval science & medicine intertwined w early drafts of Potter books & info about artists who did the audio & illustrated books audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/1…

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31 Dec
Yes, actually that's kind of the problem these days.

All the 🔥takes will be shown to be wrong once the voter file data & analysis like this one w the FULL RESULTS get done, which is why I'VE NOT PUBLISHED MY 🔥TAKE IN NYT yet

We'll have to decide if we want it fast, or right
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Its educated versus non-educated

And its global
1. I'll add that it's very imp that Ds understand, crystal clear, this fact (that edu is the divide that rules all other divides). After Parscale's success in 2020 the GOP will now double down on their efforts to come after non-college educated, non-white voters bc now they KNOW
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1. Excited to announce my 1st @ElectionWsphr @substack The Cycle-On Substack is live!!

That's right! My @SubstackInc is finally live!!! I'd be deeply honored to have you subscribe in any capacity so that my content arrives right into your inbox!

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It features an all-⭐️panel of political scientists @LilyMasonPhD, @NathanKalmoe, & @stevenwwebster- each experts in neg. partisanship & partisan schadenfreude

What?!

What's that you say?!
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1. Are you totally obsessed w the #GASenateRunOffs? Check out this amazing tool from @OldBullTV & @OpenModelProj that let's YOU take a deep, interactive dive into their survey data to see the impact of diff weights & turnout models so you can understand how polling data is VERY
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1. I think so. I don't think the issue are plans. The issue is that the ability of our govn't to function-to create & enact policy- has been seriously abridged the past decade to the point where it can't function. We've seen virtually no legislation this past decade & pretty
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1. Correct- and that's bc in order to be a Republican you have to forgo the mask. You have to attend in-person events, often in crowded indoor venues with no social distancing at all. And no masks. This is the reality that Republicans are living in, whether they want to or not
2. This is essentially the argument that @GovChristie is making in his public service announcements- post COVID. That he felt pressured to conform to a Trump/WH-led "groupthink" that throws caution to the wind regarding the virus. That he knew going to the WH to the events he
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1. As per @SteveKornacki's always excellent map breakdown on the GA Prez vs. Senate races in the general election: there were a subset of voters, largely millennial suburban ATL Indies who grew up in R HHs, who hated Trump, but since no case was made that made Loeffler & Perdue
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