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Charles Gaba ✡️ Profile picture
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May 4, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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📣 MICHIGAN: A case study in how the #COVID19 partisan "hoax"/anti-science divide led to the COVID partisan vaccination divide:
acasignups.net/21/05/03/michi…
Remember this, from @KatherineEban?
Well, that eventually led to this, which I've been much-criticized for daring to even track over the past year:
As I said last summer...
...and sure enough, 9 months later, we have this:
nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/…
...and this... washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04…
...which led to the @NYTimes FINALLY admitting the obvious: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
And so, I've taking it closer to home; I'm tracking vaccination levels at the county level here in Michigan. Here's where things stand today (the 12 counties which voted for Biden actually have 55% of Michigan's population, while the 71 which voted for Trump only have 45%):
Statewide, the Blue counties have vaccinated 10% (3.3 points) more of their residents than the Red counties.

This may not sound *too* dramatic until you realize that the Red counties have *22% more senior citizens per capita*. If anything, they should be way AHEAD so far.
UPDATE: No offense to @JoeKanter, but if he'd been following me for the past year this wouldn't have caught him off guard, which is kind of my point. #JustSaying

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
UPDATE: Gee, imagine that:

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Jun 1
🎉 MAY DEM FUNDRAISING PROJECT REPORT: Donations up 341% for the month & 89% overall vs. the same point in 2020!! 🧵
blue24.org/24/06/01/may-2…
As I teased the other day, by the end of May 2020 I had raised $303,000 for Democrats up & down the ballot. For the 2024 cycle, as of last night, I had raised over $573,000! 2/ Image
Just as noteworthy is the *breakout* of donations: At this point in 2020, STATE LEGISLATIVE races only made up 10% of the total I had raised.

This cycle state legislative races make up *40%* of the total! 3/
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May 24
Let's see...Trump is 6' 3" tall. Putting him sideways it looks like the stage is perhaps 15' long, but I'll be generous and call it 16'. It also looks like it's only 6' deep but I'll call it 8' for the heck of it. Image
So that's ~92 stages or so...call it an even 100 to account for the stragglers at the outer edges.

That's 128 sq. feet x 100 = 12,800 sq. feet. Let's assume they're all tightly packed.

Again, in a tightly-packed crowd the avg. adult takes up 4.5 sq. ft.
poynter.org/reporting-edit…
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12,800 / 4.5 = 2,844 people in attendance when this photo was taken. Let's be generous and round it up to an even 3,000 people.
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May 12
Let's see here...a semi trailer (lower right) is roughly 50' long, so the venue is roughly 9 trailers x 4 trailers, or 450' x 200', or 90,000 sq. feet.

Of course the rear 1/3 is almost empty, but there's also some people lined up in the upper left, so call it ~80% full...

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So, that's perhaps ~72,000 square feet of "tightly packed" people. According to this article, in a tightly-packed crowd the avg. person takes up ~4.5 sq. feet.

That would mean perhaps 16,000 people.

.cleveland.com/datacentral/20…
Now, the trailers I used are slightly closer to the camera than the people in the crowd, so I may have to adjust for scale a bit. If we bump it up by, say, 25% you get 20,000 people or so.
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Mar 20
🧵 People have asked me why I started an organized project to raise money *directly* for Democratic candidates up & down the ballot when there's already so many other organizations out there doing this. There's a couple of reasons. 1/
The first is that most of the existing organizations/PACs/etc seem to (in my view) *either* focus ONLY on the true swing districts *or* they raise money for races which are clearly unwinnable without being up front about how long the odds in those races are. 2/
I try to walk the line between these--for district-level races I cast my net wider than most "tossup only!" advocates, but not absurdly wide; for statewide races I *do* include deep red states but also make it absolutely clear that those races are *very* long shots. 3/
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Mar 7
📣 I'm just $6,300 away from raising $300,000 for Democrats up & down the ballot!

Help me push the total over the top by the end of this evening's #SOTU!

Pick a page & donate today!

(all donations go to the campaigns listed; none goes to me)
#Blue24

Blue24.org
📣 HELP KEEP THE SENATE BLUE (& also chip in for President Biden) HERE:

.secure.actblue.com/donate/senateb…
📣 HELP FLIP THE HOUSE BLUE (& also chip in for President Biden) HERE:

.secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
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Dec 16, 2023
A little fun Die Hard trivia for those who don’t know:

The first Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. In the novel McClain’s character was named Joe Leland. This was a sequel to a 1966 novel by Thorp called The Detective. 1/
The Detective had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland in 1968.

This means Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.

In fact, the studio was contractually required to offer the role to Sinatra if he wanted it. Sinatra was 73 at the time.
As for the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (title since changed to “Die Hard”), it follows most of the same storyline and characters, but with a few VERY important differences…

1. Leland is about 15 years older

2. Holly is his daughter, not his wife
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