Spooky Charlotte Swasey

data(witch), pollster, blogger. Currently @SearchlightInst

Has been described as "really compelling and helpful (and super depressing)"

[Searchlight Institute @SearchlightInst]

🚨 We're excited to announce that @BenKrauss5 has joined Searchlight as our new Editor.

Ben comes to us from the Slow Boring Newsletter and most recently spent a year abroad in Taiwan.

Welcome to the team!

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

https://t.co/8Nb9khldCx

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

It's kind of heartening that despite spending as much money as he could possibly want, Tom Steyer still got super rejected by voters (link in reply)

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

@EthanBWinter @AlexanderMcCoy4 @JacobRubashkin The Risen Empire/ The Killing of Worlds does this well, imo (also, bonus points for adding the direct opposite, microscopic ships, to the set)

[Danielle Deiseroth @danielledeis]

literally my dream come true to sit down and gab with my fav @JaneAFlegal about energy and what the heck we should do about data centers (hint: we should make hyperscalers pay to upgrade the grid):

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It’s easy to imagine somebody like Bernie Sanders or AOC embracing these kinds of policies." And maybe a lot of other people, too.

@CitizenCohn on the latest Dem-aligned healthcare policy proposal, at The Breakdown:
https://t.co/tXZaiY0sOG

[Meg Schwenzfeier @_Schwenzfeier]

Dug into who’s actually planning to ask an AI chatbot who to vote for this fall - young voters, voters of color, and men all over-index.

A potentially decisive slice of the electorate, even though adoption overall is still early days.

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

@lara_putnam you could write a whole additional document on the assumptions baked into the red-lining of the autopsy doc. it really shows a clear perspective!

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Hollywood needs to produce "Top Chef: Your Fridge", this would solve the ordering-out crisis

[Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann]

People need to be less wedded to recipes and get more excitement out of figuring out how to make something out of whatever they have lying around in their fridge. It's a less stressful/cheaper way to live!

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Nah, not likely, voters are usually pretty good at identifying the ideological placement of highly-discussed policies

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

voters identify free healthcare & other left economic populist policies as moderate. dc thinktanks & corporate sponsored legacy pubs are the only places where these concepts are seen as radical. that’s why they look at this graph and think, “we gotta pivot right on culture wars”

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Please! https://t.co/FsQvcFrLS1

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Yeah the dnc is fucked up but my considered take is we should have a smoke filled room about it

[John Hagner @JHagner]

There are a lot of brilliant analysts and researchers and data people who care deeply about the Democratic Party and who would have been honored to work on a project like this. The interesting story in all of this is why none of them were asked to.

[Searchlight Institute @SearchlightInst]

NEW POLL: Voters across the political spectrum are signaling a clear desire for America to scale back its global footprint and turn inward.

That sentiment is especially strong among voters under 35 — suggesting a trending new bipartisan consensus around anti-interventionism.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

I love how the conspiracy pushed on here was that the DNC blocked the autopsy because of what it said about Gaza when in fact it doesn't mention that & they didn't put it out bc it seems to have been written by a 5th grader. Perfect encapsulation of the discourse around the DNC.

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Ken Martin should step down

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

1. Promise to release autopsy
2. Put incompetent friend in charge
3. Incompetent friend produces incoherent product
4. Announce you're not releasing the autopsy
5. Lie about why
6. Gaslight people who ask, saying they're the problem
7. Face internal revolt
8. Release autopsy

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

1. Bullying works!
2. Goddamn this is sloppy

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Read more about what I have to say here: https://t.co/9wochQttN5

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Voters are surprisingly chill about China!

[Henry White @Henry_White1996]

Notable finding in our latest foreign policy report: Most Americans (especially younger) favor cooperation with China over a standoffish posture.

Really flies in the face of conventional wisdom on the Hill that most things can be sold to the public by saying China Bad.

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

Yeah, okay, the theory that this was just too damn sloppy to release seems to be right

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

I will not be clicking, I assume these are all the same trend

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

@andrewperezdc Yes, that's the estimate we used. The fact that the coverage details of M4A are under debate on twitter dot com is probably contributing to the confusion among voters about what a single payer/M4A/public option plan would entail, which you can also see in this poll

[Spooky Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect]

If you don't like the language on that question, you can scroll up and consult this one. I think our question wording is reflective of the national debate on the issue, but we tried a couple different angles on the issue for robustness.