Marc Trussler

Director of Data Sciences @PennPORES. Senior Elections Analyst on the @NBCNews Decision Desk. Fishtown dad.

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

Things are going to change around here, Percy! Our sweet girl, Margot Alexandria Trussler, was born happy and healthy at 6lb last week. Kelsey is doing great and we are looking forward to some time off to hang and enjoy our new expanded family.

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

@jongeeting @CaralhoPhilly Do you know what the deal with this is? Like that Starbucks looked like it was fully ready to open and then they decided to reclad this building?

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

Man voters

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - Generic Ballot poll (Man voters)

🔵 Democrats 57% (+21)
🔴 Republicans 36%

Last year - 🔴 Republicans +8 (29% shift ⏩ 🔵)

Atlasintel #A - 5/7

[Jonah Maps @JonahA59]

Made a vote density map of PA3. I doubt many young white transplants have even heard of Overbrook or Cedarbrook let alone been there, yet they're a big % of voters.

[Andrew Figueiredo @AndrewFiggy]

Recall that Cherelle Parker led ONE of six polls from Mid-April 2023 through the primary and proceeded to win by a comfortable 10% margin.

Parker was third in a late April poll and tied for second in an early May poll. Philly polling tends to miss working-class Black voters!

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

I’d be willing to bet that 10-15% of this decline is high schoolers lying less.

[Grant Bailey @grantjbailey]

Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

Headed to AAPOR in LA. If I only know you virtually please say hello!

[dan nolan @dannolan]

Getting dressed head to toe in Uniqlo’s new “unc” collection

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

A lot of academics aren’t ready to hear this because it will hurt their precious little egos but:

Your students are apathetic about learning because you don’t integrate waterslides and waterparks. They don’t care about learning because they aren’t cascading down wet wet chutes

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

@BrendanNyhan @akoustov Stick Rstudio on them and we are cooking.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

We need a cart of locked-down essay-writing computers that you can wheel in for exams. This doesn't seem hard!

My bigger vision: a SCIF for ongoing Internet-free writing with monitoring to ensure no devices are used.

Universities should be doing more to innovate!

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

@joshmccrain While I am rapidly moving in this direction, the countervailing force for me is: don’t make things shitty for students trying to do things the right way.

[Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski]

They just introduced "ballplayers from the Philadelphia Phillies!" on the Jumbotron at the Flyers' Game 6.

They were booed.

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

Why you should read any “shift” graph with extreme skepticism. Fairfax shifted “more democratic” in a percent sense, but democrats in Fairfax turned out at a significantly lower rate than Republicans statewide.

[J. Miles Coleman @JMilesColeman]

Turnout in the redistricting vote was down about 10.7% from what the 2025 gov race saw.

Gold localities = smaller drop
Purple localities = larger drop

Basically, turnout was the strongest, relative to 2025, in dark gold localities.

[hansonsrun @hansonsrun]

I am a big fan of BYU’s phenomenal freshman Jane Hedengren who set a collegiate 5000 Outdoor record of 14:50.50 this week at Bryan Clay.
Sharon Lokedi ran 14:48 from 35k-40k at the Boston Marathon yesterday.

Let that sink in.

[Andrew Arenge @MrArenge]

Been tracking Virginia voter turnout for NBC News all day

We've gotten data from 86 / 133 jurisdictions

In communities that have traditionally supported Dems, turnout is ~87% of the number of people who voted in 2025, whereas GOP jurisdictions it's ~96%

https://t.co/nL3Pam70e3

[Hybrid Athlete Guy @Hybridathlete]

22:00 5k runners: "But I can't run that slow, it feels unnatural!"

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Marc Trussler @marctrussler]

FWIW: this number is unchanged from when we ran this poll one year ago.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NBC News/Survey Monkey poll | 3/30-4/13

(Among Democrats)
When it comes to political matters, do you consider yourself to be…

More of a supporter of progressive causes and the progressive movement 55%
—
More of a supporter of the Democratic Party 45%

[Daniel Bromfield @bromf3]

This is what MJ Lenderman songs are about

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthset.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.