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Edison Research has Twitter losing nearly a third of its American users between Jan 2023 and Jan 2024 (mostly in the late summer when the Twitter to X name change happened...hypothesis is a number of the more casual users literally didn't recognize the X app on their phone).

The pattern seems to be that the more casual users are drifting away while more hardcore posters continue to post steadily but with fewer and fewer people hearing what they're saying. Generally less impactful vs its heyday.

Slowly but surely a number of people who are big account holders with 500k followers will realize that only 300k of those are people who ever actually use Twitter anymore and their microphone is way weaker than they think it is.

I know that a lot of you think of X/Twitter as fundamental to following politics online, but this is an important reminder of what it is (and what you are buying into every time you use it). You may as well be on a chan board or KF.

Massive FF.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1791651238301282518

Much as I think Donald falling to pieces publicly would be karmic justice, I'm not sure the above is evidence of it.

Donald has always spoken as though he was doing a book report where he didn't even open the book and didn't do any prep. That so many people, both among his supporters and the media, and even his opponents, just accept that and let it slide is one of many "Emperor's New Clothes" aspects of his political arc. But if renewed focus on his mental failings puts it back in the public eye, good.

It’s really funny (and frankly kind of sad) to think about how many prominent right wingers could be closeted gays or bisexuals.

It's sad that the left has allowed the right to monopolize Christianity, even with a liberal Pope. The 1950s Leave It to Beaver lifestyle isn't what Christ died for.

Relatively Liberal Pope. Remember Pope Francis himself says that he is a son of the Church, and he can't change church Doctrine. He is however far more pastoral than his precedessors.



No the big problem here is, the politicizaton of the Catholic Faith, and the hijacking of the Catholic Civil War about Vatican II ( going on for 60 years now ) by the Republican Party and their donors.

There's a reason why the Pope restricted the Latin Mass in 2021. He knows.

Like don't get me wrong. There are serious valid debates to be had about the implemention of Vatican II. But when it gets tied up in Republican politics ? Yeah no....

AP/DDHQ/Local sites all called this as Scott crossed 51%.

Again tonight we see that the lower-income African American vote, who mostly shows up on E-Day, is solidly with the Democratic parties "preferred" choice of candidates.

Not so fast. Dixon's base are the "super voters" - older black women who are the real Democratic stalwarts in Bmore, and she did well with those folks. I don't know who was the "preferred" choice - I think the party was basically split, but Dixon has a huge base. But Dixon lost because a) people wanted stability and b) getting linked to Sinclair.

Which pollster is worse: McLaughlin or Zogby?

Has to be Zogby.  McLaughlin is at least fairly predictable because they're usually (not always) slanted to the right.  Zogby is more like a random number generator.

It's sad that the left has allowed the right to monopolize Christianity, even with a liberal Pope. The 1950s Leave It to Beaver lifestyle isn't what Christ died for.

That tells you right there how popular (or rather, unpopular) Israel is.

Not really.  It just tells you there are, unsurprisingly, far more effective lines of attack against a doofus like Jamaal Bowman or Cori Bush.

Yup in the end Israel isn’t really a deciding vote for anyone in Cori Bush’s seat and in Bowman’s case it’s already well know so those voters are decided . However a lot of swing voters may not like other stuff they did .