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In honor of this special day, new poll results: A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana and support for medical marijuana is overwhelming. Read more @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...
The Strait of Hormuz has dominated recent news coverage, but the U.S. has been blocking oil shipments to Cuba for months, making fuel unavailable there. In a new YouGov poll, we show that many Americans disapprove. More analysis in the replies and at @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...
meeting people who mainline gpt slop all day but dismiss wikipedia as unreliable because a teacher didn't let them cite it 20 years ago
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
VoteHub@votehub.com · 5mo agoBoca Raton, FL Mayor (Trump +13) Thomson leads by 1 vote following a machine recount, flipping the seat to Democrats. 🔵 Andy Thomson – 7,568 (39.62%) 🔴 Mike Liebelson – 7,567 (39.61%) 🔴 Fran Nachlas – 3,967 (20.77%)
% of U.S. adult citizens who said each of the following is trustworthy, according to polls conducted in [March 2025 | February 2026] The number of people who vote in national elections 43% | 30% Ocean temperatures 45% | 33% Population counts 46% | 35% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
Our culture has a contingency which is obsessed with finding the magic phrase which will turn off bigotry but look, there just isn't one. Which is why we need both systems to prevent that bigotry from shaping policy and a culture which shuns and shames those who are bigoted.
That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.
I love when old polls give you hints about the history of language! You can tell the naming convention between lunch, dinner, and supper was in flux enough that they couldn’t use the current standard to ask the question
Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 5mo ago207. Roper, 1949: "If you had to cut out one meal, your breakfast, noon meal, or night meal, which would you be most willing to leave out?"
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5mo agoDemocrats have introduced a bill to suspend the federal gas tax through October.
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AVCX Classic@avcx.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe at AVCX crosswords believe that N and Ñ are different letters
NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9: Trump's Cabinet % of U.S. adult citizens who would favor | oppose Trump firing the following people in his Cabinet Rubio 29% | 36% RFK Jr. 43% | 33% Hegseth 40% | 29% Bessent 29% | 23% Bondi 44% | 22% Lutnick 33% | 18% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9 % who think U.S. military intervention will improve | worsen the situation for the Iranian people U.S. adult citizens 31% | 37% Democrats 4% | 64% Independents 24% | 40% Republicans 64% | 8% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
NEW Economist/YouGov Mar 6-9 % who say [the Iranian people | the U.S. government] should decide who leads Iran U.S. adult citizens 76% | 6% Democrats 85% | 4% Independents 75% | 5% Republicans 69% | 10% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran. Why? For starters, majorities don't think Iran posed an immediate threat, don't think the war will end quickly, and think Trump needed congressional authorization. New polling with the Economist / YouGov: yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A CNN analysis of more than two dozen videos found agents routinely violated both federal and local policies.
How ICE and federal agents are breaking rules to use less-lethal weapons against protesters | CNN
A CNN analysis of more than two dozen videos found agents routinely violated both federal and local policies.
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Do partisans cheerlead for firings? A majority of Americans approve of firing Kristi Noem, but Republicans are more likely to approve when it's described as "President Trump's decision." Most Democrats approve either way. Results of the experiment at @today.yougov.com: yougov.com/en-us/articl...
sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.
Mar 6 poll of 4,346 U.S. adults (+/-1.9 points) % who approve | disapprove of the U.S. attacks on Iran U.S. adults 37% | 50% Democrats 10% | 81% Independents 26% | 56% Republicans 74% | 14% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...
If you commit the Strategist's Fallacy then you think that Labour moving right on immigration shores up Tory and Reform defectors But if center/right parties won't vote for you because conditions are poor, all you've done is force your base to flee to the left www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
The Strategist’s Fallacy in American politics
The average American voter does not think about politics the way elite strategists and pundits do
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G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5mo agoBy moving right on immigration & other key issues, and generally coming off as incompetent (esp on cost of living), UK Labour is losing vote share to left-wing parties AND to right-leaning ones. This is what happens when a party appeases its opponents & loses its core identity.
Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data
FiftyPlusOne.news@fiftyplusone.news · 5mo agoWhat divides MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans when it comes to foreign policy and Iran? For 50+1's weekly polling roundup, The Trendline, we took a look at the numbers: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/what-divid...
First poll I've seen on support for impeaching Trump over his handling of the Epstein files www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/...
