Seth Abramson

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RT @VeryBadLlama: being Canadian on an American election day is sort of like being trapped in your house and forced to look on helplessly a… — PolitiTweet.org

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All I’ll say at this point is that we are several hours into election night and while we still do not know what is going to happen there are no signs yet, at all, of a red wave — PolitiTweet.org

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Watching the North Carolina Senate race very closely. 👀 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW HAMPSHIRE (11% in; NYT): https://t.co/OooocjpbMr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NextGenAmerica: BOOM: In Pennsylvania, 74,194 young Democrats voted early this year, compared to 2018 where only 17,633 voted early. G… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: I sure hope Dems turn out in Nevada. If Moore v. Harper goes the way legal experts like me fear, today will be a memory:… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Remember the Election Day mantra: STAY IN LINE. The GOP has spent decades inventing ways to discourage voters in heavily… — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) Exit polls mean very little. I note these numbers more because media had been reporting that abortion was actually not a significant issue for most voters. That does not appear to be what voters are saying today. By the same token, media said crime was a huge issue and—well. — PolitiTweet.org

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@King_Doppopolis Yes, agreed—but the GOP put very little focus on that issue in this election cycle. Gun violence was a Democratic focus. Of course, for all we know “crime” voters were worried about school shootings. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Remember the Election Day mantra: STAY IN LINE. The GOP has spent decades inventing ways to discourage voters in heavily… — PolitiTweet.org

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NATIONAL EXIT POLL (NBC) Q: What’s the most important issue to your vote today? A (by %, with party that’s pushed the issue in blue/red; purple indicates both parties have): 3️⃣2️⃣ 🟪 Inflation 2️⃣7️⃣ 🟦 Abortion {big gap} 1️⃣1️⃣ 🟥 Crime 1️⃣1️⃣ 🟦 Gun Policy 1️⃣0️⃣ 🟥 Immigration 🤔 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: It is incredibly important that both Democrats and Republicans understand that Republicans have specifically sued electio… — PolitiTweet.org

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ICYMI: MAGA Freaking Out About Bad GOP Numbers in Arizona — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katiehobbs: If Kari Lake doesn’t get her way, she plans to undermine the will of voters. She has already refused to say if she’ll certi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @katiehobbs: Today is your last chance to help send Kari Lake back to whatever dark corner of the internet she came from. Only 5 hours… — PolitiTweet.org

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Still looking good. — PolitiTweet.org

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@green_grow_ Yeah, immigration from Saskatoon is definitely what Michigander MAGAs are worried about. 🙄 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) A brief note on journalism. Voters can say they have any priorities they want to have. That’s what it means to be a… — PolitiTweet.org

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The upshot: American journalists of course need to (and do) report what’s being said by a huge national population that’s diverse—as between rational and irrational actors—but they must then come down *conclusively and permanently* on the side of data and the facts on the ground. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s like blithely saying voters are concerned their guns will be taken—something that’s never happened, come close to happening, or been a thing that’d ever happen—while equally blithely noting that most voters aren’t voting based on abortion rights, which are *actually gone*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Were I a major-media journalist, I’d be frankly humiliated to report that many voters are voting on the basis of crime or immigration given the current status of those issues—versus others—in America. It means that deceitful partisan rhetoric carried the field, rather than facts. — PolitiTweet.org

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Voters aren’t obligated to be rational. They’re not obligated to acknowledge data when they make voting decisions. But it is actually *condescending* to voters—coddling them—when journalists honor their irrational biases and skewed perceptions over what *good journalism* reveals. — PolitiTweet.org

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Because folks like info that’s easy to understand, they prefer polls over longform reporting. The result is that corporate media spends exponentially more time telling Americans what voters say they care about than investigating whether those poll responses make any sense at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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So yes—it’ll always be a responsibility of journalists to not just report that many voters deem the economy, crime or immigration a top issue but to *also* talk about which issues affect the most Americans and whether data supports being concerned with certain issues over others. — PolitiTweet.org

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Immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens. Most crimes are between folks who know one another. You’re more likely to unexpectedly deal with a collapsing education system or inadequate healthcare coverage or denial of your rights than crime at the hands of a stranger. — PolitiTweet.org

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So yes, it is the job of journalists to underscore that education and healthcare and civil rights and voting rights and labor rights have a vastly more significant impact on the average American and American community on a daily basis than does immigration or even violent crime. — PolitiTweet.org

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And I’d add to all of this the fact that it makes no sense for a voter to say an issue is the biggest issue for them when there is no evidence it directly affects them at all, or even indirectly affects their community as much as other issues. A Michigan “immigration voter”? Huh? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s immigration policy—“Remain in Mexico”—remains in place under Biden, with under a million border crossings in the last year. Over a million people were turned back. Our border is as secure—or not secure—now as it was *under Trump*. A GOP “immigration voter” makes no sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican judges repeatedly said the 2020 election *wasn’t* stolen. So did GOP election officials. Media reports that—behind the scenes—GOP politicians admit it too. That was also the conclusion of Trump’s own DHS. And the GOP did January 6. A GOP “democracy voter” is a paradox. — PolitiTweet.org

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Crime was worse in the last year of the Trump administration than the first year of the Biden administration. Murders are down. The GOP has literally no plan to fight crime and is itself a criminal (insurrectionist) entity. So the idea of a GOP “crime voter” is *also* a paradox. — PolitiTweet.org