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Feb 8, 2022 51 tweets 16 min read Read on X
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It's been another 3 months, so I figured it's a good time to again break out COVID county-level, 2-dose, total population vaccination rates for all 50 states.

Again, I use CDC data for most states, w/state health dept. data for a few. 1/
ALABAMA: Fairly weak partisan correlation, mainly because the vaccination rate sucks pretty much EVERYWHERE. It does form an odd snake shape, though.

The graph on the right (w/out background graphics/etc) includes children 5-11 only.
ALASKA: AK has always been all over the place on COVID vaccination rates. Bristol Bay has supposedly vaxxed *over* 100% of its population which is impossible; this is caused by a variety of factors including error margin etc. I've set a max cap of 98% for any county's vaxx rate.
ARIZONA: A pretty strong correlation..but this is a case where the CDC's data is completely at odds w/@AZDHS data, which claims that both Apache & Najavo Counties (which CDC puts at nearly 100% vaxxed) are only around ~48% vaxxed apiece. Possible data overlap w/Navajo Nation??
ARKANSAS: Again, very little slope or correlation; again, this is because nearly *every* county is doing terribly at this point (Over a year in, any w/less than 60% of their total population 2-dose vaxxed is doing pretty poorly IMHO).
CALIFORNIA: The Big One, in more ways than one. A rather stunning slope & correlation...the R^2 is nearly 0.73.

This is also the only state I've completed the 5-11 yr old version for...and it shows nearly the same pattern. Sad.
COLORADO: Stunning. An even *stronger* R^2 correlation, over .076.
CT, DE, DC, HI, RI: None of them have more than a handful of counties, making a scatter plot kind of pointless, so I lump them together just for completeness. I've made a "no county is 100% vaxxed" exception for Kalawao County, HI which has only 82 residents, all of whom are 50+.
FLORIDA: Decent correlation, & the 5-11 yr old graph is just sad. Big outliers: Sumter County (makes sense since it's home of The Villages, the huge MAGA retirement community)...and Miami-Dade County, which I still believe is MASSIVELY overstating their vaxx rate.
GEORGIA. Like other Southern/Deep South states, Georgia has a fairly mild slope...again, mostly because the vaxx rate is poor in nearly *every* county.
IDAHO. I've heard conflicting feedback from different statisticians: Some say an R^2 isn't significant unless it's over 0.6 or so. Others say that when *both* the X *and* Y axes are based on *individual human decisions*, it's significant at a far lower level.

Idaho is 0.61 FWIW.
ILLINOIS. Looking at the 2nd graph, all I can think is that Illinois Republicans must really hate their children.
INDIANA. (also per request by @greg_travis).
OK, I'm taking a breather for a bit; I'll continue the thread soon.

Meanwhile, if you want to support my work, you can do so here, thanks! acasignups.net/support
Update: Unfortunately I’m having some technical issues which will delay the rest of this series. Stay tuned…
OK, here's part 2...for technical reasons I'm only posting the "full population" graphs for now. Hope to get the 5-11 yr old versions ready soon.

IOWA:
KANSAS:
KENTUCKY:
LOUISIANA. I still have no idea what the deal is with West Feliciana Parish, other than the LA State Penitentiary being located there.
MAINE. Yes, you're reading the R^2 correctly: Nearly 0.8.
MARYLAND:
MASSACHUSETTS. Both Dukes & Nantucket are supposedly *over* 100% 2-dose vaxxed; obviously that can't be the case. They're capped at 98%.
MICHIGAN, my home state.
MINNESOTA.
MISSISSIPPI.

COVID-19 has killed 1 out of every 259 Mississippians to date.
MISSOURI.
MONTANA.
NEBRASKA.
NEVADA.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
NEW JERSEY.
NEW MEXICO. Yes, the R^2 is 0.77.
NEW YORK.
NORTH CAROLINA.
NORTH DAKOTA.
OHIO.
OKLAHOMA.
OREGON. R^2: 0.772
PENNSYLVANIA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
TENNESSEE.
TEXAS.
UTAH.
VERMONT.
VIRGINIA (warning: The CDC's vaxx data for Virginia is kind of strange, but the state health dept. dashboard doesn't allow for easy county-level export, so be forewarned).
WASHINGTON STATE:
WEST VIRGINIA:
WISCONSIN.
AND FINALLY...WYOMING.

And yes, the R-squared below is 0.8673.
Whew! There you have it: All 50 states, plus DC.

I hope to break out 5-11 yr olds soon (as well as only counting those < 65, since seniors tended to get vaxxed across the board last year).

If you'd like to support my work, you can do so here, thanks!

acasignups.net/support

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More from @charles_gaba

Nov 10
Here's an updated version of my "Dem Stop the Steal!" conspiracy theory thread which hopefully is less scattershot.

There's 3 main claims:

1. "How could there be 20M fewer voters than in 2020 w/"record-breaking turnout?"

2. "How could 15M fewer voter for Harris vs. Biden?"
3. "How could so many swing state voters vote for the Dem for Senate but not for Harris for POTUS?"

There's a few others, but these are the biggest ones, so let's tackle them first:
1. There weren't 20M fewer voters.

I've been compiling the data as it's being updated by CNN's tracking center via a Google spreadsheet. As of this writing, total POTUS turnout is ~147.6M, or ~10.8M lower than 2020's 158.4M.

cnn.com/election/2024/…

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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Nov 8
Yesterday I posted a thread digging into the actual data behind the "20M missing votes!" and "15M fewer than Biden!" conspiracy theories being tossed around the past few days.

I've updated my spreadsheet using the latest data from CNN:
cnn.com/election/2024/…Image
Short Version:

Via CNN, as of this writing, total 2024 POTUS votes are only down 13.9 million vs. 2020...with a likely 11.5 - 12.0 million ballots still to be counted across 30 states.

Total 2024 turnout will likely be ~156M or so...just a couple million fewer than 2020.
Again, using CNN's data & estimates, once every legitimate ballot has been counted, Trump will likely have around ~78 million votes to Harris' 75-76 million.

That'd mean he added ~4 million vs 2020 while she lost ~5-6 million.

Both of these would still suck, of course.
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Nov 3
As the guy who obsessed over precisely this data for nearly 3 years, let me address this:

My best estimate is that around 150,000 more Trump 2020 voters than Biden 2020 voters died between Nov. 2020 & Nov. 2022.

That's a lot of people. HOWEVER... 1/

acasignups.net/22/09/17/eleph…
...the vast majority of this discrepancy happened in districts/counties which were heavily red to begin with, which is why the MAGA COVID Death Cult factor only ended up making a decisive difference in exactly one statewide race: Arizona Attorney General:
acasignups.net/22/12/29/updat…
At the House district level it didn't make a decisive difference in any races at all. To understand why, let's look at two extreme examples...

acasignups.net/22/12/13/updat…
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Oct 31
People have started asking why I'm still pushing fundraising for Dems just 5 days before Election Day. All the ad time has been purchased & the lit pieces printed & mailed out already, right?

There's several reasons: 1/
1. For state legislative races in particular, a last-minute cash infusion of even $50 can mean an extra few pizzas for tired & hungry canvassers or an extra burner phone for phone banking.

Blue24.org/state-leg
2. After the polls close, there's going to no doubt be some races which require recounts...which may or may not have to be paid for by the campaign requesting it, depending on the state and the margin. That's gonna cost money.

Blue24.org/endgame
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Oct 31
🧵THE DEAD POOL: Since @MikeJohnson and @JDVance are promising to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about that. 1/
acasignups.net/24/10/04/dead-…
Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012...*before* the ACA's major provisions went into effect.

Half the US had employer coverage. Another third had Medicare or Medicaid. ~11M had "individual" insurance; ~48M had nothing at all. 2/ Image
The ACA had 2 main goals:

1. Reduce the number of uninsured Americans as much as possible by making coverage more affordable & accessible;

2. Provide protections from insurance industry abuses, *especially* for the individual market where the abuses were the most blatant. 3/
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Oct 6
(sigh) OK, here we go again: Trump's Butler, PA rally crowd size.

Here's the best aerial view shot I've seen of the crowd at its peak. (the arrow shows the stage). 1/ Image
A standard dry U.S. trailer van is around 53' long. 2/
schneiderjobs.com/blog/semi-truc…
As it happens, the aerial shot shows several presumably standard trailer vans lined up neatly in a row just outside the perimeter in the lower right.

By copying & pasting one of them, it looks like the venue runs around 7 trailer vans x 4 trailer vans. 3/ Image
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