The rightward shift in young men's partisanship is recent -- since 2024. data from the @pewresearch NPORS study.

Even Republicans have not recovered their pre-pandemic levels of economic confidence. Data from @umisr 's consumer sentiment survey

Presidential vote has only been correlated with life expectancy since 2008, and even then the effect is strongest among whites.

While liberals have moved almost a full scale point more supportive of free trade since the election (on a 7pt scale) conservatives are unmoved. A super interesting case for the role of elites in shaping mass attitudes. Data from the incredible @PRL_Tweets Political Pulse.

I know this mirrors a national trend, but gosh it's apparent that traffic enforcement in @ColumbusGov has basically never returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Outside of a tiny number of super polarized issues (in this case, immigration and climate change), the American public basically agrees on the topics deserving of national attention. Data from @APNORC.

Gun control attitudes continue to depolarize (on the margins!) in the 2024 General Social Survey. Data from @NORCNews.

Wake up babe new social welfare discontintuity dropped

It's only on questions of race where younger generations are less tolerant -- for the other speakers on the GSS, Gen Z/Millenials basically indistinguishable from other Americans.

National political spending preferences by partisanship, 1972-2024. Fascinating that numerous policy areas have seen negligble polarization over this period. Data from @NORCNews's GSS

Confidence in national institutions, by partisanship, 1974-2024. The collapse in Democrats' Supreme Court confidence in 2022-2024 is the largest single year change seen in 50 years. Data from the GSS @NORCNews.

The newly released GSS shows Whites continue to liberalize in their perceived cause of racial economic inequality.

Stark class income * partisan effect also apparent in 119th Congress's congressional districts:

Abortion attidudes depolarized (on the margins!) in the newly released 2024 General Social Survey from @NORCNews.

Presidential vote among whites shows continued income polarization (data from @electionstudies 2024 timeseries), with income negatively correlated to GOP presidential vote.

It's not just the coastal universities -- a plurality of conservatives perceive even the flagship public university in their state to be liberal.

If the Papal pick leaked, no one made it to the bookmakers.

With the release of the 2024 ANES, further evidence that Trump's invovlement in US politics has coincided with a *reduction* in mass authoritarianism (in a thermostatic style--of course!--with larger changes among Democrats) . Data from @electionstudies CDF and 2024 time series.

The Australian Federal election swing in historical context (1943-2025). The shift in two-party preference is more modest than I expected, given the swing in seats. #Auspol2025 #AusVotes2025

In April, Republicans in the UofM Consumer Sentiment adjudged national business conditions the best they'd been since the pandemic.