Steve Singiser

Husband. Father. Son. Brother. Teacher. Coach. Contributor—The Downballot. Come for elections nerdom, stay for bad sports takes.

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

Born in Navarro County. Back home in Navarro County.

Worth spending 1505 miles in a car with this guy (though our wives undoubtedly helped with the sanity).

[Jim Singiser @JimSingiser]

Mom is back home in Texas. Supposed to rain all day, but Mom held the weather off so we could have a beautiful service. 30 minutes later the skies opened up & we got a summer Texas storm with strong wind, a heavy downpour & thunder. Mom’s favorite type of weather! 🙏🏽 #PromiseKept

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

This 'What if Trump sues us and we get a bunch of death threats like Ann Selzer?' era of polling absolutely sucks
https://t.co/ZK0Sp5z6u1

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Of all the people they could have chosen to troll Obama over the Cheesecake Factory thing, the White House chose pissy cadaver / hedge fund manager Scott Bessent?? That's your populist hero?

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

Over a decade ago, I wrote a piece expressing skepticism about LV screens because it compels pollsters to guess at the final makeup of the electorate (plus, is someone sitting through an entire poll staying home? Seems masochistic!).

Marist is kinda reaffirming that for me, ngl.

[Taniel @Taniel]

Meanwhile, the governor's question:

It is tied 44/44 among likely voters, with 6% for the independent, while Pingree is up by 11% among registered voters (compared to +12 three weeks ago).

Well, you can't say Marist is herding with the Gov numbers.

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@brianros1 @DjsokeSpeaking Um...oh wait!

I know! I know! The first one!

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@DjsokeSpeaking @brianros1

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@brianros1 @DjsokeSpeaking LMAO. Alrighty then, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, but it appears undeserved!!

You gotta love the gov race: RV: Dem +11. LV: Why...by gawd...it's tied!!

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@brianros1 @DjsokeSpeaking Might be a fake? Not seeing it on their website rn.

[Juan David Rojas @rojasrjuand]

This will go down as Flavio Bolsonaro’s 'basket of deplorables' moment. In Brazil, it's common to hear vitriol against Lula: crook, corrupt, etc, all of which is considered banal

Flavio, however, succumbed to the worst caricature of the Brazilian Right by calling Lula '9 Fingers'–an epithet used by elite opponents to refer to the former metalworker who lost a finger at 17

Lula aptly seized on this to attack Flavio for being raised raised in a gated community, never laboring a day in his life and insulting him and workers

It may well have boosted his numbers in the run-off

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

But...but...both of those midterms were disastrous for the Democrats (particularly 2010).

Dems would be thrilled if they got a 2010/2014 outcome here.

[Kristin Davison @KristinDavison]

FWIW, in the lead up to 2010 & 2014 Midterms, Obama campaigned in places like Illinois, Connecticut, & Rhode Island. Historically, it’s normal for incumbent presidents to get the vote out in home field states, too! 🗳️🙌🇺🇸

[This American Adam @adamconner]

Incredible in-kind donation from DSA to Nithya Raman.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

I mean, he doesn’t. This wasn’t his ad.

Cenk Uygur is behind this ad, and he has the strategic mind of a lobotomized gerbil.

[Brian Winter @BrazilBrian]

The controversial 2-hour delay in voting at some ballot stations in Brazil yesterday only resulted in 34,000 extra votes -- irrelevant, given Lula beat Bolsonaro by 4.43 million

Source: TSE (electoral court)

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@DCCyclone Every dollar that went to that other ad should’ve gone to this ad.

It’s personal without being exploitative, it’s deeply relevant, and unlike trans kids playing basketball, every family has this story.

It’s a wildly effective ad and plays to his strengths.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Trump is like the global Pope of election denial.

He says he won’t intervene, so Bolsonaro concedes. https://t.co/OjFJ27jod6

[Steve Singiser @StevenSingiser]

@RobHartWBBM “Love is Like a Rock” and “Ah! Leah!” were both immensely underrated tunes in the early 80s.

[Matt Lindner @mattlindner]

If you are a bar -- hotel, dive, high class, any kind of bar -- and a group of people from Milwaukee roll in 30 minutes before closing and you like money, you chug a Red Bull and stay open as late as you physically can because they will make it worth your while financially.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

I’m late to it but read the big NYT story on El-Sayed & the Muslim Brotherhood and the smoking gun is a letter he signed … calling for Morsi to get rid of supporters of the dictatorship? Am I the only one old enough to remember 2012? Much of Congress felt this way!

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱🎃 @MappingFL]

Beshear ran a compassionate ad and Turek ran a “I’ll stand against the trans community” ad

Again the tone matters a great deal here. This isn’t complicated.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

It’s notable that Turek polling well behind Sand gets much less attention from the chattering class than AES polling behind Benson