Los Angeles is renowned as one of the world capitals of bad traffic. But once upon a time, in the glorious age before cars, the city was home to the largest public transit system in the world.
So how did this revolutionary devolution happen? Let’s talk about it🧵.
PSA: if you are trying to figure out how to re-route mail from the #eatonfire, the Lincoln Ave post office is pretty overwhelmed. They just announced they’d be open tomorrow afternoon as well, so I’m going to try again then.
I asked because I was interested in the extent of the difference between (a) someone partisan-coded (endorsed Harris) whose public presence was not mostly political and (b) elected officials. Biden gets 5% approval from Rs.
@RoseInstitute The most common question I’ve had about this is ‘why the oversamples?’ Since our research focus is on state and local gov’t, the oversamples are for ongoing research on these specific states. They can be included with the national data to make slightly better nat’l estimates.
@blockedfreq@YouGov Hi! That’s me! Happy to answer questions if you have them. I saw a few questions about the long fielding time—the answer is that YouGov soft-launches to make sure that everything works, and a few people trickle in later. So the vast majority of respondents are Oct. 10-15.
I do not use Twitter much anymore, but I came to say: do not commit voter fraud. I saw some encouragement here for people to try to vote more than once, using fake names. That is immoral, ineffective politically, and very illegal. You are likely to get caught. #2024Elections
#AcademicTwitter — a huge number of historians have now joined Threads, and you can find them there with the History Threads hashtag. (I only came over here to turn Grok off.)
I don’t know about you, but if I were running for President, I would not pick a VP who said this about me—Vance: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.”
Today is #electionday in #California. Don’t forget to vote! It’s easy to go in person to a polling place here in LA County if you can’t find your mail ballot or just like the experience. I voted this morning and it took about ten minutes.