philfrei.bsky.social
@philfrei.bsky.social
Maybe it's not a one-size-fits-all situation. What works "best" in one area is not necessarily what works elsewhere.

The main thing I hope to see is unity on the matter of economic disparities and power, giving more representation to those who are not billionaires. How that is done can vary.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
FWIW The last poll I saw that ranked concerns of voters had economics first, the lack of bipartisanship in politics second, and matters like immigrants and environment and others after that.
In other words, a majority of voters want more bipartisanship, and that includes some Trump voters.
November 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I found the article. It claims 16% of Trump voters said America would be better off now if Harris had won the election. Given 77.3 million Trump votes, that's a little over 12 million. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I'm not sure about the numbers, but didn't the latest Rasmussen poll show that there are now more people who voted for Trump and regret it than the number of votes by which Trump beat Harris?
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Fascinating to me, how do we explain it? Many influential people in the GOP have disagreed with Trump and been in turn have been sidelined as far as the media coverage or in their ability to influence their constituents. Greene seems to be doing just fine. Is Trump afraid to attack her?
October 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
On the basis of being ANTIFA propaganda?
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
FWIW, Orwell was ANTIFA, wrote 1984 about 75 years ago.
October 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thank you!
October 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Am curious, Baltic en route to Caspian? Caspian is land-locked. Is the source on this news reliable?
October 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
LOL good point!
The biggest promoter of this "research" is the company that makes & sells the push-buttons. Objective research in this area is no where near as compelling. Lay people are prone to projection, creating click bait. Pets DO communicate but this is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_... stuff.
Clever Hans - Wikipedia
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October 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Yes! Important to do so.
FWIW, I found "OutClassed" by Williams to also be an excellent source.
August 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
...reading this work. I wonder if giving it additional air could help with getting message out to college-educated to better understand rather than bash working-class voters. Lowering division could help with collaboration.
August 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So glad for your work and your blog. Interesting to me that many of your findings track along with ideas expressed in Joan C. Williams book "OutClassed." Have you read this work of hers? I'm curious about possible focus on "elites" attitudes towards working-class. Found I had many biases from ...
August 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Competition: who has the flattest head.
August 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This reminds me of a campaign in Oakland, for EBMUD positions. Some developers were stymied by incumbents, so they came up with a whopping big scandal: that EBMUD offices had bottled water dispensers! Shocking! Mailed out huge number of mailers, knocked out the incumbents and got their development.
July 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If the process of review leads to better candidates & better campaign advisors, then it's worth it. As it stands, it looks like many of the campaign advisors (still) involved are not the best. I particularly disagree with those that managed Harris into an overcautious, inauthentic persona.
May 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM