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a machine learning/software engineer. also political data @TheArgumentMag, co-founder @SplitTicket_, and @cal alum. ✉️ lakshya@theargumentmag.com. i hate sports

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Where Do Trends Favor Each Party?

Where Do Trends Favor Each Party?

The most common way to look at election shifts is to look at county-level swing. This is the standard, accept…

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America and the Abortion Debate

America and the Abortion Debate

Over the last fifty years, perhaps no single issue in American politics has been as hotly debated as abortion…

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How Big Is the Red Wave Going To Be?

How Big Is the Red Wave Going To Be?

Observers look at primary elections as a separate species from general elections. Primaries are viewed both a…

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Is Electability Real?

Is Electability Real?

One of the biggest flashpoints in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries was the notion of electability. …

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The Declining Value of a Dollar

The Declining Value of a Dollar

I need a dollar (dollar), a dollar is what I need...And if I share with you my story, would you share your do…

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How the Electorate Changes from Presidential to Midterm Years

How the Electorate Changes from Presidential to Midterm Years

Dear Readers: Join us tonight from 6-7 p.m. eastern for a conversation with Matthew Barzun, the former U.S. a…

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Rep. Sarah McBride does not want to fight other Democrats about trans rights

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By Lakshya Jain Verified
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When Rep. Sarah McBride was elected to Congress in 2024, she became the chamber’s first-ever trans member. It was not exactly a banner year for trans rights. Given the apparent success of the Trump campaign’s fearmongering — running ads claiming “Kamala is for they/them” and accusing Harris of promoting “transgender operations on illegal aliens” — Democrats started to fear they were on the wrong side of a losing issue.
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How Bobby Pulido thinks he can win a Trump +18 congressional district

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By Lakshya Jain Verified
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Democrats took a beating on cultural issues in 2024, and Bobby Pulido thinks he knows why. Even when said cultural issues have almost no impact on daily life, they are easy to default to when voters otherwise do not otherwise see meaningful differentiators. “There’s not a big difference in their lives when either party wins,” the Tejano musician and Democratic House candidate said in a Substack Live conversation with The Argument. “They were not happy under the economy under Biden.
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How Texas finally became a toss-up

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By Lakshya Jain Verified, Armin Thomas
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The Split Ticket midterms model is updated daily at 5 p.m. Eastern with the latest polls on our website. Is 2026 the year Texas finally goes blue? Readers who remember Beto O’Rourke’s failed 2018 bid to unseat Ted Cruz may have PTSD upon reading that question. But the answer may well be yes: Democrat James Talarico is ahead in almost every single recent survey of Lone Star State voters.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I've never had a *job* in journalism, but I did get started with writing about the NHL's San Jose Sharks for SBNation site Fear The Fin.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Nope! Wish I did, though.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter and Facebook Messenger/Instagram