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Posting maps of each state's Partisan Voter Index for every election https://t.co/CLcpWHtWIM
Nov 10, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
#ElectionTwitter In this thread, I'll copare the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections to the 2023 abortion referendum in Ohio to examine how the two coalitions differed in their attitudes towards abortion. In 2012, Obama won a number of working-class voters whose views were lukewarm on abortion, while Mitt Romney was supported by many college-educated suburbanites that were pro-choice. Image
Jul 19, 2021 20 tweets 15 min read
#ElectionTwitter In this thread, I'll discuss the impact that the World Wars had on German-American voting patterns (fyi, this is an extremely long thread). German Catholics voted overwhelmingly Democratic at the time, and were concentrated in places like eastern Wisconsin, Stearns county MN, Dubuque IA, Clinton county IL, Dubois county IN, Ellis county KS, and Putnam & Mercer counties in OH.
Jul 18, 2021 7 tweets 7 min read
#ElectionTwitter Here's a map that I made of Theodore Roosevelt's performance by county as the presidential candidate for the Progressive party in 1912. Roosevelt received 27% of the popular vote, which is the best showing for a third-party candidate in American history. Image From comparing the 1912 results to the Free Soil Party's performance in 1848, it becomes apparent that Roosevelt won a lot of Yankee-settled areas in the Midwest that were Republican strongholds ImageImage