A year ago, 526 voters met in Texas to talk politics. We caught up with them ahead of the election.
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Kevin QuealyA year ago, @emilymbadger, @celestesloman, @chadbatka and I went to Texas to witness an experiment in which 526 representative voters talked politics over a long weekend. We took a portrait of almost everyone.
We revisit them today, grouped by party
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Kevin QuealyThese portraits will disarm you and show you the humanity of "the other party" — whatever it is — in a way a normal poll just can't. Even if you are dead inside, you will find something in them.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
(P.S., this is also a poll story.) pic.twitter.com/4Uiryzd5wj
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Estimating how many residents left New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood.
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Kevin QuealyNew in today's Upshot, a serious attempt at answering a question I think almost all New Yorkers have wondered:
How many people have actually left?
Our ballpark answer: about 5 percent, roughly 420,000 people.
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Kevin QuealyThe distribution of who left was much more uneven than I would have guessed: In the city’s very wealthiest blocks — think parts of the Upper East Side, West Village, SoHo, Brooklyn Heights — residential pop. decreased by 40% or more.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…pic.twitter.com/kncj1xkYfn
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Kevin QuealyNew today in NYT-world, humble charts and tables that, we hope, help you think about coronavirus outbreak in hundreds of metro areas across the U.S. Including good news!
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Why recognizability matters, to politicians and celebrities alike.
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Kevin QuealyNew today in Upshot, a quiz that asks you a simple question: who is in this photograph?
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Kevin QuealyIncluding:
• Most Americans under 40 can't identify @JoeBiden when shown only his picture
• PewDiePie and @JeffreeStar are more recognizable to teenagers than any Dem. 2020 candidate
• What @mikebloomberg's ad buy did for his recognizability
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