Thread by @jennycohn1

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but McGrath’s approval was lower than McConnell’s & the 18% figure cited in a viral thread is from 3 years ago. Re: Lindsey Graham, comparing his turnout in 2020 to his turnout in 2014 isn’t credible. The Dem turnout more than doubled too. 1/

https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1340092593682612224

I’ve asked questions of the account listing these figures but received no response. Please stop directing my attention to these nonsense (in my opinion) threads. The only credible parts are concerns about the vendors and their history, which I and many others have written... 2/

... about for years. 3/

If we want to be able to discount nonsense from Trump supporters, we must be careful to not spread nonsense ourselves. 4/

IMO, post 1 at the top of the viral KY thread shld be taken down as misinformation bc it falsely claims that McConnell’s approval was only 18% when he won. The new LG thread is also misleading bc it omits that the Dem total also more than doubled between 2014 & 2020. 5/

Everyone makes mistakes. But when u refuse to correct them or engage w/ legitimate concerns, then that’s a problem. 6/

Here is one place where I gave her the correction. She admits elsewhere that the 18% she cited is from 2017. But this correction is not included as a post to the thread itself. 7/

Nate Silver gave McConnell a 96% chance of winning. Yes, polls are often wrong. But if we are going to use them to make a point, it is important to properly report what they said and to delete or conspicuously correct if u get it wrong. 8/ projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-…

I’ve done it. Others can do it when they mess up too. And we would all be better for it. 9/

Here is where the 18% came from it is three years old. Very misleading to cite it really 2020 where Mitch was between 39% and 44% approval, & McGrath was about ten points lower. 10/ thehill.com/homenews/state…

Acknowledgement. 11/

So why wasn’t this mentioned in the thread which is about 2020? 12/

And why was there no correction? 13/

14/ poll.qu.edu/Poll-Release?r…

15/ Democratic votes in the senate more than doubled from 2014. Why is that not mentioned in the thread?

@threadreaderapp plz unroll