Kyle Foreman

did it autocorrect to quinoa every time you typed that

Do all these official government tweets get archived somewhere for posterity, or is that just something the White House Office of Digital Strategy did under Obama?

Because what a rich text for future generations to study. Assuming the nuclear EMP hasn’t made all computers inoperable by then.

Also enjoying this one from the same series

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Harrell is now at 116,435 vs Wilson's 112,135. Wilson got over 5k more new votes than Harrell today, and today's ballot drop is less than half of the outstanding vote. So a similar margin in the remainder would have Wilson narrowly pull ahead.

Harrell is now at 116,435 vs Wilson's 112,135. Wilson got over 5k more new votes than Harrell today, and today's ballot drop is less than half of the outstanding vote. So a similar margin in the remainder would have Wilson narrowly pull ahead.

Friday 11/7: Wilson made up quite a bit of ground today.

Thursday 11/6: Slight movement towards Wilson today, as expected with the later vote. Still a lot of ground to make up and a lot of votes outstanding, so it's really hard to say much more than it'll be interesting to see tomorrow's results!

King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.

Thanks, I was about to ask the same!

Wilson now trails by -8.19%.

Well. That's not a shift to Wilson. She did lose ground on one day of the primary count, but needs something dramatic now.

90k to 100k votes left, Wilson trails by 11,183. She needs at least 55% of the remaining votes.

That said, while I wouldn't make any strong assumptions yet, Wilson did not gain ground today like many had hoped or expected given the trends in the primary counting. [4/n]

It's still too early to say anything definitive. With higher turnout in the general than the primary, counting might take longer and thus any shift in vote composition might not be apparent for a couple more days. [3/n]

A plot of the margin (% point difference) for newly counted votes between Harrell and Wilson in the primary (transparent blue) and general (opaque red) elections.

Even looked at in terms of percentages, Harrell's margin among the newly counted votes on day 2 was larger than day 1, whereas in the primary Wilson started with a small daily margin that grew larger throughout the counting process. [2/n]

Wednesday update: with the 11/5 King County results, no evidence of a shift yet. Harrell maintains a lead of about 74k to Wilson's 63k, meaning his lead actually expanded from 8k to 11k with the second day of counting. [1/n]

Love that it’s more of the identical gold appliqués above the exterior door as inside the oval office on the walls and fireplace.

They must have bought these by the dozen, just slapping them on every surface in different orientations. Dying to know if they just spraypainted these foam ones gold.

In the primary, it wasn’t really until Friday that the gap in % counted for each candidate really started to close. With higher turnout in the general, it might be slower.

Thanks for pulling this together! Inspired me to make a couple charts as well:

The same chart of votes, this time showing just new votes counted for each day. Wilson's largest margins (% wise) are on days 4 (Friday) and 7 (Monday).

Another way to look at it is net new votes per day of counting. Here you can see how much the vote broke towards Wilson later in the process. [6/n]

Props to @katherinemitchell.bsky.social for her original post which inspired me to grab the data:

I'll update with more data from kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec... as it gets posted over the coming week. Without precinct level data, take everything with a huge grain of salt. But the election definitely isn't over yet. [5/n]

The same bar chart of general and primary election results by day, but with a dotted outline showing what would happen if results came in at a similar rate to the general.

*If* a similar pattern holds in the general, that would extrapolate out to Wilson ending up with 119k votes and Harrell with 115k. But obviously TONS of uncertainty here. Will be an interesting few days to watch. [4/n]

A line chart showing the proportion of each Seattle Mayoral candidate's total votes that had been counted on each day during the primary election

Which is another way of saying that the bulk of Wilson's advantage came in later in the vote tabulating process. On election night only 45% of her eventual votes were counted, compared to 54% of Harrell's. That gap stayed pretty large until about the 4th day of counting (Friday). [3/n]

A chart of the daily vote totals for Seattle Mayor for both the primary and general elections (so far)

In the August Primary, Wilson started with a slight lead, beating Harrell 44,457 to 43,160 votes in the first night results (August 5), which she then widened substantially to an 18k margin (98,479 to 79,984) by the time results were finalized. [2/n]

The Seattle mayoral election will be a nailbiter for sure. Incumbent Bruce Harrell is currently up 62k votes to challenger Katie Wilson's nearly 54k.

But as is typical for Seattle and its mail-in ballot reporting (there is no in-person voting in WA state), that leaves a lot of uncertainty. [1/n]

was it at least in 4k

Just imagined a guy who rinses his bananas after peeling them and now I'm so upset I need to take a walk around the block to cool off.

Just did the same. Good cover, good title, worth a shot!

Kinda says it all.

@weisenthal.bsky.social $UPS

i am 39 years OLD. i post ONLINE. i have a stable job in a big CITY. i have a mild form of mental ILLNESS that can be treated with LITTLE to NO medication. i am going to kill myself because of postseason BASEBALL.

Can’t wait to see Porkin Across America on the big screen