Christmas in January

Open-source precinct data, focus grouping podcast-listening men for Trump, WAR in 2024, where polling goes next, a multiparty America, using AI to "read the bill," a home field advantage in elections

No. 345 | January 17th, 2025

🇺🇲 2024

It’s Christmas in January: The New York Times releases its very detailed map of the 2024 election.

They also open-sourcing the data powering this map and are soliciting help from readers to help collect more.

The map allows most Americans to look up how their city, neighborhood and even their block voted in the race between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris, and see how vote margins have shifted since 2020. It currently includes results for more than 110,000 precincts, or 73 percent of all votes, and will be updated as more data is collected.

Echelon’s latest focus group with the Times is a conversation with 12 men who voted for Donald Trump and put more trust in Joe Rogan and X than they do in mainstream media:

The return of Donald Trump as president might start setting things straight — that’s the hope, at least, among the 12 men in our latest Times Opinion focus group. They all voted for Mr. Trump in November not only because they liked his views on…