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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I beg our high quality media outlets to stop shilling for Amazon

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not much polling bias in recent midterm elections (screen shot from the other place)

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Speaking to Wisconsin clerks, Gov Evers asks for passage of Monday absentee ballot processing bill before he leaves office

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tiffany’s congressional voting record is pretty far to the right & his running mate is a real social conservative madison.com/news/state-r...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A reminder from the 2016 pres primary: Milwaukee was the only county where Clinton beat Sanders.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looking like Hong hit her high in early summer, plateaued, & won’t blow past her poll standings. The question is whether Crowley has caught her.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First full county (Jefferson) is in and it’s a dead-heat between Crowley & Hong. State Navigate poll had Hong ahead everywhere.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fairly steady turnout at my polling place despite the rain Rain is causing some smearing & damp ballots that jam the scanner Two voters had borderline apparel (“Godzilla for president” & “unapologetically pro-democracy”)

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Order of the 7 Dem candidates on the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary ballot

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For those thinking of an election that is not until November

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Spelling Bee killing me again

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I keep getting this social media ad that always looks to me like Tiffany is backing a 400 year tax hike

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I am bad enough at Spelling Bee without it rejecting real words

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just coming back from vacation and assume nothing alarming happened in our politics while I was away

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Alito thinks legislative maps are made by a computer and which districts white and minority voters are placed in is essentially random

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Dems might win the Senate this year but have entirely new leadership in 2027. When has that happened before?

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The US is off the regressions line: an extremely high income country where residents think politics need big changes www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I know the business in Iran is serious but I see this with every mention of a minesweeper

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Special character on The Pitt tonight

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Replacing the previous figure, which mistakenly omitted 2020 & underestimated 2016 when the prez primary drove up turnout (and Kloppenburg was again a candidate)

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Voter turnout in the WI Supreme Court election fell from last year’s record high, but still one the highest since the 2011 nail-biter between Kloppenburg & Prosser

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Taylor’s romp is not merely the result of high D turnout in Madison & Milwaukee. Liberals gained the most in red, rural counties.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Full-throated support of US action in Iran & criticism of Europe for standing down. A confusing message about the western alliance being stronger than ever. Also knocks on Trump for tariffs, pursuing Greenland, not anticipating Iran response, & not backing Ukraine.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Waiting to see Boris Johnson speak at UW-Madison. Music is pumping like a campaign event. One of the most male-heavy audiences I’ve seen on campus.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Why does this puzzle keep doing this? www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Employment won’t be the only factor in the midterms, but the jobs drop off starting with Trump will be inconvenient for the GOP this fall

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Oklahoma law says appointee to Mullin’s vacated Senate seat must swear not to run for it later. Probably unenforceable.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Say what you want at the airport. No one else is.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Trump approval rating is ranging wildly from 36% to 50% — not only because of diverging samples of adults versus reg/likely voters

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

There might never be another Spelling Bee that contains a president’s name #PresidentsDay

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Why do younger people report the highest levels of consumer confidence?

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Join @electionscenter.bsky.social & @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social on March 6 for an all-star analysis of the 2026 mid-decade redistricting battles Featuring @mcpli.bsky.social @sarasadhwani.bsky.social @profnickstephan.bsky.social @robyablon.bsky.social Register here: go.wisc.edu/95y7s8

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Trump says some states can’t be trusted to run their own elections. The 3 states with the worst election administration performance in 2020 & 2022 were bright red AR & MS elections.mit.edu#/data/rank

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Why are we Americans paying attention to the European weather model instead of drawing our own predictions on the map with a Sharpie?

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Trump pardoned the people who smeared feces on the walls, stole equipment, threatened lawmakers, and tried to overturn an election for him.

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Watch for Trump to be on the road more in coming months to get out of the bubble and reassert himself as a campaign force going into 2026 elections thehill.com/homenews/564...

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This will be such a loss for public engagement & government transparency Wisconsin. I hope a creative team can come up with a solution to keep the public affairs video flowing.