John Cluverius
Political scientist, professor, pollster, parent, partner. Pro-choice, pro-union, and pro-orca.
“If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.”
All statements are personal opinions, not reflective of university positions.
- 4 in 10 Alabamans voted to keep the provision in their state constitution that bans interracial marriage. IN THE YEAR 2000.
- Ok everyone one last time if you have a forthcoming book that I can preorder PLEASE SEND ME A LINK RIGHT NOW
- The guy is going to win when his lawyers successfully argue that a reasonable person should know he doesn’t pay vendors
- Reposted by John CluveriusLooking forward to the calls from the White Male Gen X/Elder Millennial Pundits for the Republican Party to focus on Kitchen Table Issues & moderate its positions that are out of touch with Real Folkz 🧐🤔
- this is actually a pretty solid writeup of a survey experiment that is digestible for reporters, but I really wish we could get @apnews.com stylebook standards for reporting them, particularly how to talk about measures of uncertainty.
- so if you want to have a bot read the polls for you and come up with your campaign position on gender affirming care it's: 1. parents control everything until kids are 18 2. after 18 people can live how they want but don't be gross 3. BUT SPORTS Which of course is nonsensical and sounds terrible.
- keep your government hands off my fucking medicaid
- You can actually choose your own adventure on the polling for gender affirming care. Framing it as a ban and disempowering parents is actually not popular even in red states!
- Reposted by John CluveriusThe most commonly-cited "moderate" positions here are 1) requiring all female athletes from kindergarten through college be subjected to sex testing and 2) replace the best medical judgment of your family pediatrician with Bill Maher's opening monologue
- Luckily the Supreme Court carved out an exemption for gratuities!!
- Reposted by John CluveriusIs “near-universal agreement” in the room with you?
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Imagine you're playing Russian roulette with the economy. If you lose, millions of people lose jobs, health coverage, savings, and wealth. October and November '24: one bullet in the cylinder December '24: 3 bullets April '25: 4 bullets Now: 2 bullets Everyone enjoying the game?
- This is a highly legalistic definition of corruption that really only the conservative majority on the Supreme Court uses. Corruption is rarely a crime in and of itself, and includes a wide variety of criminal and civil violations as well as activities that may not be illegal!
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- about to get another talking to about professionalism
