strength in numbers is in good company here

cbs news is giving us a great natural experiment into what happens to your business if you marginalize your existing consumers to go after a new market that hates your product. interesting strategy

Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of Jan. 6 because, at a fundamental level, he does not believe in democracy or the Constitution www.gelliottmorris.com/p/pardon-my-...

good job, good people

the people who run prediction markets are not serious people

ICYMI: There is a very weak relationship between economic growth and House seat change in midterm elections. Midterms are a backlash, not a referendum www.gelliottmorris.com/p/midterms-a...

i am begging people to learn any new metaphor besides "tail wagging the dog"

hilllary the hawk, donald the dove

Some early Venezuela polling: -40% haven't heard much, high DKs, room for opinion to shift -Early coalescing along party lines -Split on military action but consensus it req'd Congress authorization -Little appetite for US "taking control" of Venezuela

winter is canceled (thank god)

From the “Strength in Numbers” Substack: “Americans do not want war with Venezuela”

Excellent piece from @gelliottmorris.com on how your news diet affects your politics and how you view the Trump Regime. Those with a heavy diet of conservative media view Trump favorably, while those with a diet of non-conservative media view him unfavorably. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...

teaser for tomorrow's deep dive over at strength in numbers www.gelliottmorris.com/p/midterms-a...

Trump has accomplished the feat of replicating 12 years of disastrous Reagan-Bush era foreign policy and tax + spending reforms in just 11 months. Truly impressive

I think public opinion will ultimately turn toward people being in favor of capturing Maduro, with regime change remaining unpopular. But Trump campaigned on 2 big things in 2024: (1) lower prices and (2) no more wars. He has broken both of those promises, & that will have political/electoral costs.

can someone send me a pdf of this article www.axios.com/2026/01/03/m...

Polls conducted in late 2025 show that most Americans, by a 25-50 point margin (depending on question wording), oppose the use of military force against Venezuela. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...

data > priors

post 4 2morrow www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-...

On average across multiple polls, only 25% of Americans support military action in Venezuela substack.com/@gelliottmor...

In our recent October poll, 2% of Americans said their primary source of news was CBS. They disapprove of Trump by a net 20 points. I doubt a campaign against elites and academia — left-coded groups, in the Trumpian formulation — is going to help ratings www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...

Wanted to show something cool w/ our polling averages. There's been a slowdown in new data to add bc of the holidays. This increases uncertainty about what the polling avg is 2day (shaded green area). Our avg is the only one with real uncertainty intervals! fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Fox News viewers love Trump. People who watch MSNBC hate him. And people who get their news primarily from podcasts lean left, esp on the economy. Here's what your news diet says about your politics: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...

I have put together a model of polling data that analyzes issue salience & party trust for 10 political issues & simulates hypothetical elec outcomes by adjusting attention to certain issues and/or giving Dems/Reps more of an advantage on each issue. Can't wait to share. Has any1 here done this b4?

Trump said on "Truth Social" the other day that his "real" approval rating is 64%. He is a liar. It is 40% (56% disapprove). It is important to call out authoritarians when they try to manufacture consent for their unpopular agendas. Remind people how unpopular he is. substack.com/@gelliottmor...

this article will publish tomorrow morning: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-your-...

it’s from the kirkland region of france

An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens

A little unclear on the proposed positioning of the structure. Is it supposed to arch over the 6 lanes of traffic on Memorial Bridge? Or just go off to the side — directly obscuring the LINCOLN MEMORIAL?

fun fact the nvidia rtx 5090 was actually named for how much it's going to cost next year

I have been feeling a lot of gratitude lately. A humble thanks to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. You helped turn what started out as tbh a very shitty year into one of the best professional years of my life. Looking forward to everything we can accomplish together in 2026!

rstudio used to have this issue where if you resized the window while a model was running, it would crash the whole program (and your underlying model), sometimes costing your hours of work. i'm glad they fixed that!

season seven of mad men... did they write this plot with chat gpt?

love it when the model works!

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I'm interviewed in this piece www.vox.com/politics/473...

putting that on my tombstone

A bonus post for Strength In Numbers subscribers! Using 10k interviews conducted with voters since May 2025, I've calculated issue approval for Trump's key policies in all 50 states (+DC). Here's how each state thinks Trump is handling prices (it's bleak) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-voter...

a bonus Monday post for subs tomorrow:

Premium subscribers to Strength In Numbers now have access to a dashboard for our monthly survey with Verasight that contains graphics for key trends and full downloadable files. Merry Christmas! gelliottmorris.com/poll/

if not a bubble, definitely bubble-shaped www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Trump's job approval in our average at FiftyPlusOne.news is 40% approve, 56.3% disapprove, for a net of -16.3 today. On this day in his first term, Trump was at -17.8. Different, but not really. Current avg: fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv... Historical data: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

good polling

Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. So, we asked them what messages they'd have for Trump and Democratic leaders if they did have the chance to speak their mind. New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...

no — i do not think the ellisons hired bari weiss to 'dismantle public trust in cbs news.' they hired her to go soft on trump so they can have an easier time getting mergers through. destroying public trust in the org is a byproduct

the GOP has waged a decades-long campaign against the press that has left it weak and frankly paranoid bari weiss and many in her position at other orgs believe the solution to this is to go soft on Trump to win GOP audiences back this will be their downfall www.gelliottmorris.com/i/174183474/...

An early Merry Xmas to everyone who has subscribed to my Substack & made it possible for me to do data-driven work as the news industry implodes. 2026 is going to be a lot of work, but important, and maybe sometimes fun. New readers can get 20% off thru 12/31! www.gelliottmorris.com/subscribe?co...

looks like trump's approval rating is heading back down fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...