Category Archives: Voting

The Name of the Game Is Rallying Your Base and Discouraging Theirs

Posted on April 22, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or at least seventy percent of the game (boldface mine): Our estimate is that the voters who voted in the 2025 Supreme Court election backed Kamala Harris by 7 points in 2024. In other words, roughly 70% of Susan Crawford’s … Continue reading →

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A Possible Reason Why Republicans Act Like They Have 2026 in the Bag

Posted on March 17, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Because they think they can suppress voter turnout among women (boldface mine): It took three trips, but Brooke Yonge was finally able to cast her ballot. On her first trip to the Derry polls Tuesday morning, Yonge didn’t bring proof … Continue reading →

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National Election Predictions

Posted on November 5, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Today’s the big day! Anyway, here’s how I think things will go: Harris wins the popular vote by 4-5%. Harris wins MI, WI, and PA by greater than two points. Harris wins AZ by less than one percent. Georgia is … Continue reading →

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Tuesday’s Results, Democrats, and Off-Year Elections

Posted on November 10, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Oh my? The strong performance by Democrats Tuesday is an inversion of a historical pattern in which Democrats do far worse in off-year elections. Of course, the results are a good thing in and of themselves. But I do wonder … Continue reading →

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The Missing Evangelical Vote

Posted on November 11, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Or at least, the New Kids on the Voting Block diluted their power. Depressing as it is, a key political phenomenon, arguably the key political phenomenon, throughout my life has been the power white evangelicals have due to their much … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the (Preliminary) Election Results

Posted on November 9, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

In no particular order: If someone had told me that Democrats, this morning, still had a (slim) chance of holding the House, I wouldn’t have believed it. While I did think Republican seats – Democratic seat would be between five … Continue reading →

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Literacy and Voting

Posted on September 27, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

I’m late to this very good ProPublica article about the problems illiterate voters face (boldface mine): Conservative politicians have long used harsh tactics against voters who can’t read — poor, often Black and Latino Americans who have been failed by … Continue reading →

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Election Fraud and Self-Projection

Posted on August 17, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Remember Trump Republicans–and most Republicans in practice are Trump Republicans–are always engaged in self-projection. Which brings us to two stories about Republicans illegally accessing voting machines. From the Gret Stet of Michigan (boldface mine): The election had gone smoothly, she … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Era of ‘Joe Crow’

Posted on June 6, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

This morning, West Virginia putatively Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced that he would not support Senate Bill S1, and that he is seeking to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act through “regular order”–which would require ten Republican Senate votes. … Continue reading →

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Senate Democrats Do Not Understand the Urgency of the Moment

Posted on May 27, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve made this point before, but it bears some repetition (boldface mine): Suffice it to say, a concerted right-wing effort really is under way to limit popular democracy and suppress votes. So what are Democrats doing about it? In a … Continue reading →

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