Data scientist David Shor on how his party won a historic landslide

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[EDIT] The amusing part is: "Trump’s overall approval rating isn’t that much lower than in 2018. And his approval on immigration, healthcare, and a lot of other issues is pretty similar. The big change in our polling has been a giant decline in Trump’s approval on the economy." Some are acting as if the public has embraced the Democratic agenda when actually, to quote James Carville, a Clinton election strategist, "It's the economy, stupid." If that scoundrel in the White House hadn't tanked the economy, the Republicans would likely still have a firm grasp on Congress.

The article seems to blame the Iran war most of all, though of course that has damaged the economy.

You seem to have missed that he wasn't popular on those things that didn't change. Healthcare in particular was low, immigration was at best middling.

> And previously, voters’ trust in his economic management was the one thing propping him up. But the Iran war destroyed it

Americans are surprisingly sane when polled on individual issues, but the political system doesn't generally reflect that.

Despite Shor being a Democrat, it's an even-handed, data-based, information-rich, insightful analysis - easily the best I've read so far.

His cancellation was truly absurd.

> Americans think AI might take their jobs and kill their families.

You could replace "think" with "were repeatedly told, unprompted, by the 3rd-rate Bond villains running the AI corporations"

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