David Searcy

Assistant Professor of Political Science at SWOSU, Wannabe Scholar, Sci-Fi Nerd, Least Important Member of My Household.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

Pizza. https://t.co/7UkJtf67of

[JSTOR @JSTOR]

No, really. How DID Michelangelo get so good? https://t.co/oCNichl1Zt

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

BLACK MAN NAMED FREEMAN SCORING ON JUNETEENTH?!

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

Jasmine Crockett is so unserious and selfish. She refuses to go to the TX-Dem convention because she’s still salty about her primary loss to Talarico

[Dan Cluchey @dancluchey]

Whatever you think of the candidates, the Maine Gov result is a textbook example of why ranked-choice voting is awesome. Everyone got to vote for the person they actually wanted without "throwing away" their vote, and the candidate the most Mainers were most cool with emerged.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

The funniest joke is as follows.

“An egg and a piece of bacon walked into a bar. The bartender shouted, ‘Hey! We don’t serve breakfast here!’”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Funniest joke ever is too long for Twitter, but it's about a duck that walks into a bar day after day, asking, "Got any grapes?" If someone knows it, tell someone else.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

“Oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss my Undertaker can make that pool blue.”

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Republicans and far-left Democrats hate Obama, but the giant normie middle loves him.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

It could be the NC really likes Stein.

It is just as probable that a number of voters just could not stomach Robinson.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

Josh Stein also faced someone who was on the shortlist for the single worst Governor candidates in United States History.

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Josh Stein got ~300K more raw votes than Trump on the same ballot.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

That would be a bit outside the margin of error.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Franklin & Marshall poll | 6/8-6/14 RV

Pennsylvania Governor 2026

🟦Josh Shapiro 50% (incumbent)
🟥Stacy Garrity 28%

Link to poll: https://t.co/UxztVBGzrM

[Joey Mauro @JoeyMauro1]

It's been interesting seeing what would happen if others had California's top-two system. This is Oklahoma's governor race if it were to elect its Governor like California does. Still, one candidate from both parties, but I think Mazzei likely wins the runoff in our universe.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

One major change… the Oklahoma Democrats really did something stupid my excluding Independents.

[Wendy Suares📺 @wsuares]

ABYSMAL TURNOUT in Tuesday's election which included a statewide question to raise the minimum wage. Low turnout and closed primaries mean a tiny percentage of Oklahomans end up choosing our leaders and future. @okcfox #oklahoma

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

Is it really going to be that hard to portray Trump’s Secretary of State as MAGA?

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

The leftward lurch of the Democratic Party is predicated on Trump (and by consequence JD Vance) leading the party, but an underrated dynamic is how 2028 plays out if Democrats continue to move left and Marco Rubio ends up leading the Republican party instead.

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

@5Solas In addition to the fact that the Bible is absolutely ambiguous on this (Paul favorably identifies multiple women with authority over men in the church), the passages that deny them this authority were written by someone lying about being Paul long after Paul’s death.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

A lower house that's unresponsive to swings in public opinion is bad.

[Addisu Demissie @ASDem]

Buried under this headline is the (seemingly very important) admission from the pollster that the poll wasn’t a poll at all.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

A better way to think about these things is that Oklahoma is a mid-major and every Progressive ballot initiative is like Duke.

They can win but they require a lot of things to go correct for it to happen because the deck is so stacked against it happening.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

So… I’m gonna push back on this. There are a couple of things Matthew is missing here.

1. In a +34 state the minimum wage increase lost by 10. We are like most states… the problem is that we are so partisan that it is just harder to overcome here.

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

In a lot of states, voters back Republicans by big margins but also support progressive policies when they're on the ballot.

Oklahoma isn't one of them. Voters there only BARELY expanded Medicaid, voted No on legal pot by 2:1, and now look like they'll vote No on min wage too.

[David Searcy @ProfessorSearcy]

Did we barely expand Medicaid? Yes.

But in a heavily Republican state a majority (a bare one to be honest) rejected the advice of literally every Republican lawmaker and did it anyway.

[Andrew Egger @EggerDC]

"The problem with Trump is how he keeps proving his critics, who deserve to be wrong, right"