Thread by @aedwardslevy

This is a really, really good paragraph on how to think about What It Means For The Midterms.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Also, this: "[T]he problem isn’t really polling. Rather, it’s the use of polls to center everything that happens in politics around those November 2022 swing voters in Wisconsin."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The subset of political actions that are going to meaningfully affect an election is both small and often unknowable, and yet that often becomes the primary lens through which those actions are examined, even in cases where there are other large, knowable effects.

(Obviously, this is all worth talking about! It just shouldn't be the only thing we talk about.)