Jamie

An election nerd who spends too much time on Twitter

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@Thorongil16 Starr and Zapata have quite the history of this.

In the 2020 Dem primaries, there were nearly 2x more votes in the district attorney race in Starr
as there were for POTUS!

In Zapata, there were more votes for Railroad Commissioner than Senator.

It's amazing

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@_fat_ugly_rat_ A proud Starr tradition!

In the 2020 Dem primaries, there were nearly double the amount of votes in the district attorney race as there were for POTUS

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

Timely new paper in @AEAjournals:

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance -- to which U.S. aid contributes about $300m a year -- has "saved around 1.5 million lives at a cost of about US$9,000 per life saved."

[Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny]

Blog/thread on Preventing Deaths During the 90-Day Assistance Freeze.

US assistance has been at the forefront of global victories against famine and pestilence worldwide. The 90-day assistance freeze (still) threatens that...

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@lxeagle17 But iirc, the CCES in 2020 also showed Native Americans as one of the Trumpiest demographics.

Maybe it’s error! But inclined to think it’s real — at least in the sense there’s a lot of folks who don’t live on reservations but who ID as Native Americans in places like Oklahoma

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

No special insight from me which hasn't already been discussed to death by others.

For posterity: I think I'd rather be Harris than Trump tonight.
-Trump hasn't done himself favors down the stretch.
-Soft signals of Harris late momentum
-Selzer

But really: I have no idea

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

I cannot wait to see what Starr and Zapata counties are like.

[umichvoter @umichvoter]

Biden at 59% in Jim Hogg county in RGV

[Jiaying Zhao @jiayingzhao]

I'm beyond proud that our paper "Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness" is published at @PNASNews today! This is the most ambitious project I've ever done, and it truly took a village for the last 7 years 🥳❤️🧵

https://t.co/2RJlRVbXbS

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

Ron Desantis is just so bad at this.

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@jdcmedlock My goodness, the responses to that tweet cement my view that Elon altering the algorithm to elevating blue checks is the worst thing he's done to this platform (and that's saying a lot)

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

I've been bearish on Desantis for a long time, and absolutely nothing about his campaign so far is making me reconsider

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

I mean, I'm clearly not the audience for this disgusting ad, but I genuinely don't understand the audience this is intended for outside alt right 14 year olds who need to touch grass

[DeSantis War Room 🐊 @DeSantisWarRoom]

To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…

https://t.co/FT7LdW4vls

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@sam_d_1995 @GovMurphy Yep! To be clear, totally agree the solution to “public transit isn’t ideal” is to get better public transit, not to fail to get folks to internalize the externalities of driving

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@maxseddon Absolutely no expertise in this area, but this whole thing just makes zero sense

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

@maxseddon So… Prigo folded for basically nothing?

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

And as for Putin -- how is his stock not dramatically weakened in going from the regime calling Prigozhin a terrorist to showing footage of this on state TV in less than 24 hours?

https://t.co/LZrXejag2e

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Wait, now state media is posting the same footage too? What the hell? https://t.co/hPOY3XKZhy

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

I absolutely have no expertise on Russia

But this whole ordeal -- and the supposed resolution -- makes absolutely 0 sense to me

What possible comfort could Putin provide that he won't have Prigozhin eliminated?

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

I suspect this is far from over. Putin cannot accept an armed insurrectionist, Prigozhin can’t accept the possibility of being eliminated if he lets his guard down. Wagner contingents smell blood & money & aren’t happy with this outcome. Then Kadyrov, what lesson did he learn.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Would be amazing if in one of the Dune sequels, the spice turned out to be a placebo.

[Jamie @Jamie_from_PI]

As always, terribly, hilariously ironic that Trump likely won in 2016 largely because of Clinton's handling of classified info

https://t.co/xJ8fUcejgE