Dr. Katherine Haenschen

is he gonna fire Noem "like a dog" too because she might take that as a murder threat

Why Democrats Are Losing Texas Latinos The party assumes people of color will turn the state blue. But most Tejanos consider themselves white. And more are voting Republican.

This piece from 2021 has also stuck with me (and has lots of overlap with Sawyer's excellent points): www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Your piece is great, esp. w/r/t the Tenure Chase. I'm not sure I agree *entirely* with your argument (b/c institutions vary in what "counts" + how they weight it) but I would say it's definitely an articulation of the Standard Paradigm every scholar has to consider in charting their path.

ok this is really good (per your usual) but I am AGHAST to see that your internet time piece is turning 15 years old.

are you going to let it get a cellular device?

The Real Litmus Test for Democratic Presidential Candidates Supporting a wealth tax.

My initial objection to billionaires was based on the extreme income inequality that creates them, which is warping America, blunting human potential, & ruining lives.

Now, my primary objection to billionaires is their outsize role in warping democracy.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...

If gerrymandering is when politicians pick their voters, is NIMBY-mandering when politicians pick not having more voters in the first place?

there really needs to be human consequences for this terrible, terrible murder of innocent civilians by the U.S. government. human consequences in the perpetrators' lived existence. not enough to just hope hell is hot hot hot.

I was surprised, much like I was surprised when I went looking for an agreed-upon measure of political trust. “Surely,” I thought, “surely there is an agreed-upon construct that I can put in the survey with which reviewers will not take massive umbrage.”

There’s a wide range of measures, some are about perceiving authenticity through news coverage. I went with something else that had a mix of adjectives like trustworthy. I haven’t run the data, I had to collect it last year right at the end of the fiscal year lest it go poof.

I dug into the authenticity literature last summer, and it’s so incredibly loosey goosey. (Did a little preliminary testing in my political graphic design research about whether logos cue authenticity or not.)

IMO we cannot as a field measure authenticity. It’s “know it when I see it.”

Yes x 100. I think this also gets into questions of “authenticity” and what kinds of aesthetics and identities are perceived (by pundits? by voters? which voters?) as “authentic.”

Consistently, in survey after survey, housing availability and affordability is THE number one issue facing Massachusetts voters.

A ‘status quo’ approach to housing from any elected official, of any political party, should be considered malpractice today.

It’s all of the above. I don’t have fridge capacity to cool everything before hand. I could keep it all outside for 24 hours on the porch… it’ll be in the 40s. I don’t have coolers and don’t want to have to handle ice bags.

2 or 3 cases of seltzer on the porch overnight will just have to do!

Is seltzer in cans a non-starter? What about spindrift?

Tweeps, what is a non-alcoholic beverage for adults I can serve at room temp at my child’s birthday party this weekend?

(Do people drink room temp LaCroix?)

What if you did it Pardon The Interruption-style where you had a countdown clock on each topic?

It's the intersection with being a Maine RV *and* being in a Dynata panel. I've used that firm. There are valid questions about whether one could weight it to representativeness.

My guess is that some group who wanted to help Fine was looking for a vehicle to wash their money. It's legal, after all. But it's odd, and I wonder why EDW said yes? There must be other seats that are Dem Woman vs. Actually Bad People in the primary and GE.

But what if my dense urban neighborhood contains a surface parking lot and I'm terrified that it might become 103 homes, of which 15 will be subsidized-affordable, within 1 block of a major transit stop? What if I want the parking lot to remain a parking lot?! What then?!

I actually think that tracks given a) prior turnout numbers in Maine general elections, both midterm and prez, which are usually high-turnout, combined with b) the kind of people who get enrolled into a panel survey from firms like Dynata.

I'm 100% serious when I say: In a state with only 1.1M RVs and 330k registered Dems to start, people are gonna get REAL TIRED of taking surveys (and maybe get tired of admitting they're sticking with the Nazi tattoo?)

What's your read on the latter? The Biden/Crockett overlap is obvious, but IMO Jimmy and Bernie don't have a ton in common (other than maybe plain-spoken anti-corruption, maybe anti-establishment?).

Huge E-Day swing in Loving County, was 4-2 Talarico in the Early voting, went 4-0 Crockett on E-Day! Those are raw votes. It has a population of 64 people.

Losing urban centers?! He carried Austin (Travis), San Antonio (Bexar), El Paso, Corpus (Nueces). There are cities in Texas other than Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth.

2026 Texas U.S. Senate Democratic Primary A congresswoman from Dallas and a state representative from Austin face off in the race to be the Democrats’ Senate nominee in the Lone Star state.

it's here but not there, odd

votehub.com/2026_tx_sen_...

Yes, when the Dem primary turnout includes 33% of people with No Primary history it's inclear that a panel is going to capture that.

Frankly that's why (IMO) most of the polling in this race is a hot mess! You'd have to sample the whole file and screen for intent to vote in Dem primary, no?

... Talarico winning Latinos is not a surprise for a number of reasons.

What's interesting here is the low turnout in some of these counties.

who is that?!

yup, I don't think we'll necessarily know tonight.

There's 254 Texas counties, it's a lot to keep track of. As someone who organized down there for 9 years, I am most curious about Bexar (San Antonio, heavily Latino, hotly contested DA Race; Jimmy taught public school there), El Paso, and the RGV generally.