Democrats want a more moderate party

What voters hate about the parties, Americans ❤️ how things are going locally, the Cast Vote Record, 2026 Senate ratings, special elections, cross-gender social networks, Elon's buyouts

No. 349 | February 14th, 2025

📊 Public Opinion

Democratic voters have shifted to wanting a more moderate party after their loss in 2024.

The number one problem with each political party, from Echelon’s February voter omnibus.

As we hit 5 years, Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact of COVID-19.

It’s a constant property of public opinion research that people always feel better about how things are going locally than nationally.

🇺🇲 2024

A few more charts from my piece earlier this week looking at one million individual votes in Nevada and what they say about how Trump voters voted downballot.

Democrats’ Latino losses were everywhere.

🇺🇲 2026

Crystal Ball’s initial Senate ratings for 2026 are out. Republicans are odds-on favorites to keep—and potentially expand—their Senate majority.

Bookmarking this. New data to analyze legislative special elections in the 2025-26 cycle.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Amazing growth trajectory for ChatGPT, which could have easily fallen into AI’s trough of disillusionment, but instead used new model releases to continue to drive traffic and growth.

🔬 Academia

Ingenious use of Facebook data to map cross-gender social networks globally.

👫 Demographics

Split Ticket has a sweeping look at the election across urban and rural areas, and where population has grown or shrunk in recent decades.

🗺️ Data Visualization

How big a deal are Elon Musk’s 60,000 “deferred resignations” in the context of annual turnover within the Federal government? 210,000 people leave Federal service each year regardless. But it’s likely a bigger deal if the people who leave aren’t replaced.