Red zip codes are getting redder & blue zip codes, bluer. Of America’s total 3,143 counties, the number of super landslide counties — where a presidential candidate won at least 80 percent of the vote — jumped from 6 percent in 2004 to 22 percent in 2020 robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-s...
If Trump is elected, he’ll make it worse
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In 2022, Beto O'Rourke got 44 percent of the popular vote to Abbott's 55 percent. But Beto won only 18 counties, or 7% of the total.
The TX GOP wants a scheme in which GOP candidates wouldn't just be guaranteed to win, but would routinely win with more than 90 percent of the vote.
DEI = the n word in 2024.
Scott won the 2020 mayor's race with a landslide 70 percent of the vote
This part is factually incorrect?
"Even though Hamas garnered an average of only 41 percent of the popular vote in the winner-take-all half, it won 68 percent of those seats while Fatah won only 26 percent. Overall, Hamas won a total of 56 percent of the... seats... with a minority of the vote."
"The state opened the process up to people who either live or attended public school in Zip codes that exceeded the state’s 10-year average for cannabis possession charges by 150 percent or more, or those who attended a Maryland university where at least 40 percent of students received Pell Grants."
Eligible applicants learned on Friday that they had advanced to a lottery expected to take place in March.
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Voting in Kansas Counties
Percent of votes cast by mail. Size proportional to county population. 2020 general election.
Mortgage Delinquencies in Counties
Percent of mortgages that are delinquent. Size proportional to county population. Average of monthly values for 2020 through 2022.
Voting in Kansas Counties
Percent of votes cast by mail. Color indicates county vote degree of partisanship. Horizontal axis is logarithmic. 2020 general election.
“…the top 1 percent’s share of total taxable income has more than doubled, from 9 percent in 1975, to 22 percent in 2018, while the bottom 90 percent have seen their income share fall, from 67 percent to 50 percent. This represents a direct transfer of income—and over time, wealth…”
If you're ever railing against "rich" people who have mortgages to pay and are also a few paychecks away from being homeless, realize the 1% love this and manufactured this. The middle class is doing better than lower classes, but we're both doing shit compared to just a few decades ago.
A report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, and secure
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If every state gave its 2020 Electoral College votes to the candidate who won a majority of counties regardless of population, Trump would have won a 427-108-3 landslide.
If based on which candidate won the counties with a majority of the state's population, Biden would have won a 381-157 landslide
Texas’ GOP calls for an amendment to ensure Republicans always win statewide elections by requiring candidates to win a majority of counties.
Texas has 254 counties. Half its population lives in just 7 of them.
Trump won 232 of counties, but the 22 counties Biden won contain 58% of Texas residents
I believe Nevada still has the lowest overall MMR completion rate, although specific ZIP codes/counties of other states are lower overall
You ever read something and feel instantaneously funny & lightheaded
“According to CenterPoint Energy's Outage Tracker, 100 percent of residents in 77493 zip code…” that is my old zip code. Do you know Ho many zip codes are in the greater Hou area? A zillion
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"Between 2011 and 2020, there was an 84 percent increase in the number of people prosecuted for a federal human-trafficking offense. Of the defendants charged in 2020, 92 percent were male, 63 percent were white, 66 percent had no prior convictions, and 95 percent were U.S. citizens."
"The number of traffic fatalities jumped 19 percent from 2019 to 2022, and the fatality rate per mile traveled climbed 22 percent. ... Americans are three times as likely to die in a car crash as citizens of our peer countries." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The cost of insurance is up 40 percent over the past two years.
www.theatlantic.comSNAP Benefits Didn’t Cover Cost of a Meal in 98 Percent of US Counties in 2023 truthout.org/articles/sna...
80 percent of the population. 80 PERCENT. 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
"Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is expected to rise after Israel issued a new evacuation order on Saturday for areas in the south."
Eighty percent of Gazans are displaced from their homes as Israel orders more evacuations. See where thousands have been sheltering amid the war’s destruction.
www.nytimes.comJust a reminder, as jury selection continues, that Trump received only TWELVE PERCENT of the 2020 presidential vote in Manhattan.
In the second quarter of 2023, 69 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth.
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In the fifties, the wealthiest level of Americans, the top 1 percent, owned 9 percent of the national wealth. They now own 35 percent. The bottom 80 percent own ten percent. This has happened in my lifetime.
"Between 2016 and 2020, the non-major party share of the presidential vote dropped from 5.7 percent to 1.9 percent." Beginning with that observation, I offer some thoughts about the shape and size of the 3d-party/indie vote in 2024: nymag.com/intelligence...
Eugene Debs - 3.5% percent of the vote despite running from prison in 1920. Over ten percent in Wisconsin.
80 percent of the texts I get are confirmation codes. I love it. Stop saying I don’t love it.
Sixty percent of the crops in the world are foods that originated in the Americas.
“only 38 percent of Germans aged 18 and up are consistent supporters of democracy. In France, the number stands at a paltry 27 percent, while Italy and Poland clock in at less than 45 percent.”
OPINION: Data from numerous surveys show that consistent support for democracy across Europe is already quite low. What can be done to bolster support among Europe’s youth before it’s too late?
The question is, what can be done to bolster support for democracy among Europe’s youth before it’s too late?
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