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Dwight McCabe's avatar

Thanks for all this work.

A question - is this all adults, registered voters, likely voters? You say voters in one place but your charts by demographic segments includes those who didn't vote in 2024.

Peter Y's avatar

Democrats could benefit a lot from a massive investment in voter outreach and registration in Texas. The gap between the adult population and the electorate there has to be among the biggest in the country on a regular basis.

ira lechner's avatar

You are the BEST!

John Arrighi's avatar

Wow, this is impressive! Thank you for creating and sharing this. I especially love the cartographic view.

KT's avatar

Based on the map of Trump approval, if we assume those who approve of him now will vote R in 2028, can you predict who wins Electoral College?

KBH's avatar

GREAT work producing the interactive map and supporting data. Thanks! Hope the DNC, State Democratic Parties and D candidates throughout the country will pay attention to this.

Katherine Richards's avatar

These new graphic tools are tremendously helpful in understanding what is happening. Thank you for this!

Bishopesq's avatar

What's up with South Carolina, map makes it look like a New England state; hope that's true. Disappointed with Kansas and Nebraska, which I thought were fed up with Trump.

Peter Y's avatar

I think there’s a big gap in some of these states between the adult population and the electorate (Texas, South Carolina, Miss, etc) and a smaller gap in other (mostly whiter!) states. Effective voter registration and outreach is so important

Ruth Wattenberg's avatar

This is very interesting! I hope you use more “traditional” (or totally different) colors next time! We are now used to blue being Dems/red being GOP. To have it the opposite (dems/blue; GOP/orange) makes interpreting it much less intuitive! Thanks!

Cynthia Erb's avatar

Really interesting. I’m a little concerned by the tenacity of Trump voters.

John Arrighi's avatar

It can certainly be hard to understand, but we needn't bother with the last 30% of die-hard MAGA. They aren't going to determine much of anything outside of some local elections. Hopefully, eventually, they will come to embrace a party that is truly conservative AND pro-democracy.

The Coke Brothers's avatar

Hate, greed and stupidity, bigotry, misogyny... not tenacity.

LiverpoolFCfan's avatar

Love the map.

What I don't get is how Texas, with most of its voter-dense big cities trending blue, is still such a red state. I understand the gerrymandering, but in the general elections, it looks like Dems should have a better chance of prevailing.

And Mississippi and Iowa look like there would be more Dems winning in statewide races as well.

So I guess my question is "how many of the voters in these states are reliably showing up at the polls during elections?"

And maybe voter turnout is the whole key to getting our country back on track?

James's avatar

Isn't 40% of voters enough to win the Electoral College?

Linda Aldrich's avatar

Love the new interactive DT localized approval rating map! Thank you!!!! This will be helpful to candidates in suppressed states like mine.

And I appreciate you providing an option for those of us who don’t like “conflating sagebrush with people.” (Excellent phrasing, btw.) Hope to catch your live this afternoon.

The Coke Brothers's avatar

His approval rating should be in the single digits at this point. The fact that 40% of the population still supports him, his abhorrent appointees, their vile policies and the overall collapse of the country means that we are doomed