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May 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Catalist just released our 2022 What Happened analysis, which examines how people voted in the most recent midterms based on updated state voter files.
In states with heavily contested elections, young voters exceeded their record-breaking 2018 turnout and they voted heavily for Democratic candidates.
Oct 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Women registered to vote in greater proportion after the Republican Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now we're seeing a similar trend in more women requesting vote-by-mail ballots in some battleground states. 🧵
Voter registration usually runs closer to even between men and women. After Kansas voters defeated an anti-abortion ballot initiative, we wrote about the spike in women registering to vote in battleground states. catalist.us/kansas-win/
May 10, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
NEW from Catalist: A comprehensive look at What Happened in 2020. 🗳️
Read the report at the link below. And here’s a quick 🧵 on what we found.
catalist.us/wh-national
This report is based on the Catalist database, which looks at public voting records over the past 15 years. It also benefits from wide-scale surveys, modeling, and precinct-level analysis.
We appreciate that our need to explain what happened Nationally, in Battleground States, and across campaigns will lead to different "stories". The coalition of voters needed to produce victories will be different in each state for various reasons (some knowable and some not).
With this backdrop we can share what we have with respect to data in Georgia. In conjunction with @blfraga of Emory University, we have come to an early estimate of the composition of the Electorate in Georgia:
