Tuesday open thread: Let's Talk Elections on YouTube
My general rule of thumb for YouTube is this: I do not look at politics channels. I avoid them all because I do not want the YouTube algorithm to start spitting out every hottake there is. My YouTube viewing is for animals and music and art and history and sports. But I do follow one or two accounts. For me to follow you, you have to not be a huge account like Meidas Touch with its clickbait headlines—DISASTROUS MORNING FOR TRUMP! Until something happens which runs Donald Trump out on the rails, not much is "disastrous" for him. I don't remember how I happened upon Let's Talk Elections. The channel owner is a data nerd, and boy howdy he is a big data nerd. But he's not a schmuck like Harry Enten or Steve Kornacki. Unlike them, he doesn't present data which is good for Democrats as somehow being "good news for John McCain". He is a Democratic Party supporter. While he may criticize party leadership, he doesn't do it from a place of tamping down en...
