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G Elliott Morris

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i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome pollster: wavepolling.com book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news formerly 538 & The Economist

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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 2h
Honestly content like this is why this is one of the few substacks I pay for.
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I have the receipts
ALT: I have the receipts
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2h
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6h
Strength In Numbers called this eight months ago www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri... (from The Bulwark's latest Focus Group pod)
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16h
don't threaten me with a good time mikey
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 17h
On Sept. 1, Dems had a 6-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, per @fiftyplusone.news' aggregate. Today, it's D+8. fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026
Starting to think it’s part of CNN’s social media strategy to keep doing this extraordinarily dumb take (“90% of people who tell us they like to eat apples also enjoy apple cider”) as a way to get the president’s attention and thus more clicks. Harry knows better
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent, as usual, @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social piece today on where things stand electorally and, more importantly, why. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...
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What’s Gone Wrong For the GOP
And some speculation about why.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026
These are outliers and you should read a polling average like ours at fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...
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FiftyPlusOne - Generic Ballot Polls and Average for 2026
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026
And seconds after I tweeted this, YouGov dropped at +15 share.google/XXGidaPTwIZb...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/09/2026
We have a new high poll for Dems AFAIK of D+16 on the generic ballot among likely voters. I think pollsters are playing kind of fast and loose with these filters to only use decided voters but still. Holy hell
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow, Strength In Numbers will release the latest findings from our September survey with Verasight on voters' worries about ICE being deployed to the polls, and other "election security" measures proposed by the president. Get it in your inbox: www.gelliottmorris.com/welcome/
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Strength In Numbers | G. Elliott Morris | Substack
Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris. Click to read Strength In Numbers, by G. Elliott Morris, a…
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
i don't know if the screencap came from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social directly but that's where i got it from
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
ken paxton is cutting ads against ken paxton fiftyplusone.news/forecast/sen...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
let him cook let him cook!!
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
Shot, chaser. This is why you subscribe to Strength In Numbers, folks!! www.gelliottmorris.com/welcome
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
I can't wait to get my 'goodies' from the government
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
this changes everything. republicans to 60 seats in iowa
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
yes, green/teal line
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
I have built a novel dataset of news headlines that get shared by the press that updates daily and stretches back to 2016. Looking at data over the last month, Trump's first-ever midterm convention failed to change the news agenda. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-28...
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Iran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026
In a new database of news headlines stretching back to 2016, I show Trump's midterm convention failed to change news agendas
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
i am not sure an ad that says "paid for by the U.S. government" is going to have the effect the president wants it to have...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
absolutely amazing chart
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anachron @anachron2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we need a watto origin story first
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Multiple ads I believe
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
100 episodes for the 100-year darkness
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Fun little lizard guys
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
I would also watch a standalone story about the origins and politics of the mining guild
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Enough with the skywalkers already. Do the Thrawn ascendancy trilogy you cowards
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Vast majority of them are already voting for Republicans
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump's promise to send $5,000 checks to every adult if the Republicans win the midterms has backfired horrifically. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-27...
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Only 13% of voters buy Trump’s promise to send $5k checks if GOP wins midterms
This is why a midterm convention is a dumb idea, part one. Plus how Democrats should deal with low trust in government in 2027-28. Your weekly political data roundup for September 27, 2026.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
the 1960 congressional map was wild
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
We have found one thing Donald Trump is more popular than: Flock cameras open.substack.com/pub/fiftyplu...
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Americans are skeptical of Flock cameras
Plus, polls about the economy, the United Nations, and how often people lie
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
chernobyl should be number 1. it is not close
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
Yes, this is true in both observational data (correlating the impact of media coverage of deportations on Trump's approval rating) and a survey experiment we ran last year (priming voters about deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...
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Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats
Public opinion on immigration has shifted — and pundits need to catch up
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More than 1 in 4 *Trump voters* say the country is worse off than it was four years ago.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
(if not clear, yes, I'm talking about X) bsky.app/profile/mlow...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
Our new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll: 58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-25...
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58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better
Our new poll shows by a 56-26 margin, voters want Congress to be a check on Trump — including a quarter of Republicans
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
didn't the head of polymarket last year say he couldn't read books? tells you all you need to know
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
well "kids don't need to know long division because they will learn how to move sets of transistors around on a die" is certainly *a* take. it is also not the kind of thing I want to hear from the head of the highest valued company on earth
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Weekly podcast live stream happening shortly. Talking about our new poll at SIN (with some previously unreleased results), the latest forecast at FPO, and the polls for DEMs and REPs open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: The polls are getting better and better for Democrats
Starting Sep 24 at 2:00 PM EDT
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Good god
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Party ID or reg? Including leaners?
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
I’m not dismissing it, we have put it in our models! I called it an outlier because that’s what the Times called it in their writeup
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Much is being made of the new NYT poll in Maine, which is an outlier and shows Collins leading. But the NYT polls in MI and NH actually have better numbers for Dems than the averages there. So forecasts may not move much in aggregate fiftyplusone.news/averages#sen...
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FiftyPlusOne - Latest Political Polls and Averages
A comprehensive list of polls and polling averages for elections and politician approval.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
Why is economic sentiment so low when GDP growth is positive? There’s no reasonable explanation, the only possible conclusion is that people are all just doing a mass hysteria (/s)
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
This is such good work
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...
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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low
No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
I look forward to it!
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026
Begging pollsters to just stop for a single hour releasing new surveys with the president hitting new lows so I can finalize these graphs for an article
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 23/09/2026
The idea that Latino voters were experiencing a long-term realignment toward Trump in 2024, which was put forth by many reactionary pundits urging acquiescence to the Trump regime, turns out to be false. As some of us argued at the time, they are just very reactive to national conditions.
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