ewsandlin.bsky.social
Political Scientist and Research Manager at USC. I study public opinion.
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Unlawful assembly has been declared in downtown Los Angeles where hundreds of anti-ICE protesters are pushing back against recent immigration raids
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Many Jews participated in the demonstrations at UCLA and USC. Did you talk to any of them here?
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Police expended an extraordinary amount of energy chasing protestors out of the area to Little Tokyo, only for the crowd to reconvene near the Federal building about 30 minutes later. A completely pointless and violent exercise.
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In other words:
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I'll be very interested if we see further declines among Republicans, declines among Democrats due to lack of access, or if we see increases among Democrats as a backlash to GOP policies (kind of like we do with voting restrictions sometimes).
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These data collection efforts are ongoing (so far 🤞), so we'll be able to see the effects of the Administration's vaccine-critical policies (I think that's a generous term) on both groups as we move into the new influenza season.
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Democrats on the other hand return to roughly their pre-COVID baseline (61%). So we're looking at growth from about an 8% partisan gap in vaccination prior to the release of the COVID-19 vaccine to a 17% gap after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine. Not good!
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However, the gap between Democrats and Republicans grew dramatically after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine. During 2020, flu vaccination increased among both groups. However, after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, the flu vaccination rate among Republicans drops to 44%.
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Prior to COVID-19, the average flu vaccination rate among Republicans was about 55%. Among Democrats it was 63%. So this gap existed prior to COVID - prior research has identified the HPV vaccine and CA's rollback of religious exemption as the beginning of the modern Dem-GOP vaccination gap.
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The study uses the Understanding America Study panel, which asks panel respondents at least once every two years about whether they've been vaccinated for the flu. The panel goes back to 2015, so we have pre-COVID and post-COVID self-reported vaccine behavior.
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"Things just happen" - the bluesky historian.
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I generally don't watch TV but I love Sorrentino so much that I might give this a try over the summer or something.
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The US spent the decades after WWII organizing and funding former fascists in Europe against any whiff of communist sentiment but thinking that "Hey maybe the US didn't fight fascism out of the goodness of their hearts" is a bridge too far. lol
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You can think it is wrong but I think you are being stupid or disingenuous if you argue that explaining history as a product of class conflict is racist/reactionary etc. (they're typically smart so it is the latter).
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I haven't read the civil war chapter of APHUS in a long time (thinking of doing it now) but explaining the US Civil War as a product of incompatible and differing modes of production (one of which was chattel slavery) is not the same thing as apologizing for the Confederacy.
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Anytime fascism rears its head I see liberals getting mad at leftists for basically having a Marxist view of history. They smear Marxist scholarship and interpretation of history by pointing to a few brain-dead tankies on the timeline who are probably still in their high school "edgy" phase.