Michael D. McDonald

Michael McDonald

@electproject.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida specializing in American elections

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Michael P. McDonald is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida where he focuses on the United States elections.

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Political science 57%

Economics 20%

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 38m

A frequent reminder Bari Weiss is just the most inept and obvious character in the deep rot that infects our corporate media

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 41m

You have to get past 30 paragraphs and several pictures in this NYT White grievance story for a single-sentence mention in passing of African-Americans affected by Republican gerrymanders www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...

They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.

www.nytimes.com

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1h

In political science it is Downs' Median Voter Theorem. When you read his work he explains why parties don't converge to the median voter. But you can read top journal articles citing Downs as a strawman and then patting themselves on the back for being so smart to disprove him

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, Trump's best friend mysteriously died in jail

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.

Almost.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Michael D. McDonald

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.

Almost.

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Aaron Sojourner, Gerald Friedman , and 3 more Daniel W. Drezner, Aaron Sojourner, Gerald Friedman, Michael D. McDonald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 12h

Two stories side by side in WashPost

Wash Post: U.S. forces struck Islamic State targets in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday evening, the U.S. and Nigerian governments said, acting after threats by President Donald Trump to attack the country in an effort to stop killings of Christians.

Wash Post: The Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of temporary protected status for a group of nearly 4,000 Burmese nationals — mostly persecuted Christians and democracy advocates. This action will send them back to a junta bent on punishing them.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Marc Lynch, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 4 more Anne Applebaum, Marc Lynch, Rosemary A. Joyce, Sanford F. Schram, Michael D. McDonald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon

Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h

The rot in our corporate media goes much much deeper than Bari Weiss

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Donald J Trump Truth Social post: Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly. We no longer have Open Borders, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone, or Weak Law Enforcement. What we do have is a Record Stock Market and 401K’s, Lowest Crime numbers in decades, No Inflation, and

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h

The Donald J Trump and CBS network

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks , and 4 more Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Robert Black, David R. Miller, Michael D. McDonald, Virginia Sapiro

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law, David Rothschild , and 12 more Anne Applebaum, Anna O. Law, David Rothschild, Daniel W. Drezner, Rebecca Tushnet, Aaron Sojourner, Michael Zimmer, Jacob T. Levy, Scott A. Imberman, Samantha Brennan, Michael D. McDonald, Sam Kamin, Aidan O’Sullivan, Virginia Sapiro, Jesse R. Lasky

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 20h

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 21h

The underpants gnome theory of AI strikes again

AI --> ??? --> Profit!

maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...

Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness

maarthandam.com

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

A 54.7% decline in Trump drug price calculations

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

Thing is House Republicans could remove Johnson if they wanted something different

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahahahahahahaha

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to develop better title writing skills

Reposted by Steve Peers, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael D. McDonald

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald

J🎄🎅🏽✨ @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

You're asking for a point estimate without a confidence interval

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

There’s only so much work, work, work that Bari Weiss can do

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The first president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, President Donald Trump had joked about the “Trump Kennedy Center” onstage.

But Tuesday’s CBS broadcast of the Honors, recorded Dec. 7, premiered with the cultural institution’s long-standing title.

On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors

The network kept the Kennedy Center’s original name in its broadcast, and CBS News instructed staff to do the same, an email shows.

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Reposted by Michael D. McDonald

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors

The network kept the Kennedy Center’s original name in its broadcast, and CBS News instructed staff to do the same, an email shows.

wapo.st

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

Failsons disagree

Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 2d

"There is no obvious demand for a news network that is not overtly right wing but also seeks to curry favor with Trump." nymag.com/intelligence...

Bari Weiss Is in a Lonely Place

Running a major news outlet that is trying to placate a president few Americans like is a very hard job.

nymag.com

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

Does DHS see using excessive force as misconduct, ‘tho?

NPR @npr.org · 2d

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct. n.pr/4jlKsEc

ICE officer accused of excessive force, then sent back to work despite active probe

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct.

n.pr

Reposted by Will Jennings, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael D. McDonald

Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 2d

"There is no obvious demand for a news network that is not overtly right wing but also seeks to curry favor with Trump." nymag.com/intelligence...

Bari Weiss Is in a Lonely Place

Running a major news outlet that is trying to placate a president few Americans like is a very hard job.

nymag.com

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, David Darmofal

NPR @npr.org · 2d

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct. n.pr/4jlKsEc

ICE officer accused of excessive force, then sent back to work despite active probe

DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct.

n.pr

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

Every time a lull in the killing occurs Trump counts it as ending another war

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.

The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?

Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent.

nyti.ms

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

Funding alert for negative partisanship studies

Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 2d

Shamp’s Senate Bill 1070 would direct the #Arizona Dept of Health Services to conduct or support research to “advance the understanding of Trump Derangement Syndrome, including its origins, manifestations and long-term effects on individuals, communities and public discourse.”