How Partisan is Atlas?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Bump; I'm interested in seeing more of this.

[Crumpets]

Okay, finally had a chance to go through mine. I had some difficulty, since a lot of my posts are just apolitically snarky, but probably come across as partisan one way or the other. Here's my count:

Left: 46
Nonpartisan: 75
Right: 4

I found that my posts in the Impeachment thread made up a very sizeable portion of my partisan left posts, while my posts in results threads from the last round of elections made up a good chunk of my non-partisan posts. I wasn't quite sure how to count intra-Democratic-primary partisan posts, so I just counted them all as either "left" if I was doing so in support of a specific candidate and nonpartisan if not.

[John Dule]

Would anyone be interested in redoing this to see how much the forum has changed?

[BG-NY]

Very interesting thread, missed it the first time around.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Would anyone be interested in redoing this to see how much the forum has changed?

Definitely, although I suspect most folks will have an inflated PPF now that we’re closer to the election

[It’s so Joever]

Nonpartisan: 87
Dem: 32
Rep: 7

The majority of my posts are on predicting 2022 and polling. I may be a “doomer” but I don’t consider that partisan as I don’t want the GOP to win.

My Dem posts nearly are all focused on the threat to Democracy.

My few Rep posts are abortion and CIA related.

[Aurelius]

Would anyone be interested in redoing this to see how much the forum has changed?

In my last 5 pages I counted 27 right and 6 left, for 77% right and 28% partisan. I was gonna do 8 pages but on page 6 I reached the kerfuffle about HR with Fergie and I didn't feel like trying to classify that. There are also some political posts that I couldn't classify as either right or left. For example, Erdogan's theory of inflation isn't right or left, it's just retarded. And good luck classifying "MAGA Communism" as right or left.

I took a pretty fast and loose approach to classifying posts. Your mileage may vary.

[Goldwater]

A lot of my recent posts were "how would you vote in past elections type things, which I counted as neutral because there was always a mixture of people from multiple parties. With that in mind, I came up with:

Left wing: 21
Right wing: 11
Mixed/neutral/non political: 68

[Crumpets]

My most recent 125 posts:

Left: 51
Nonpartisan: 71
Right: 3

A slight shift to the left since I checked in 2019, but probably just noise.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Left: ~30
Right: ~15
Attacking Laki: ~100

[John Dule]

I have begun entering the new data, but I'll wait for more people to post before I upload the new chart.

[TPIG]

Left: 24
Right: 35
Non-partisan: 66

[Alcibiades]

Left: 44
Right: 3
Apolitical/neutral: 78

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

The 2019 Peebs election saw a turnout of 33% and an 82% left landslide. The 2022 election:

Ward 1: 14-0 Left
Ward 2: 7-0 Left
Ward 3: 11-0 Left
Ward 4: 15-2 Left
Total: 47-2 Left
Each "ward" is a page (25) of my past 100 posts.

Turnout increases to 49% and the left's share of the vote goes up to 96%. The pandemic really did a number on me.

[Diabolical Materialism]

How many posts are y'all choosing to count?

[Farmlands]

Left: 25
Nonpartisan: 68
Right: 57

I wager the numbers would probably be the other way around if I'd done this count the year I joined Atlas.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I scrolled through my last 8 pages and even I am mystified as to my partisan lean.

[John Dule]

How many posts are y'all choosing to count?

I would recommend about 100 to get a good sample size, but you're free to do as many as you want.



Here's what we've got so far. The characteristic curve seems to be appearing again, but this time it's moved noticeably to the left. My data point in particular has shifted much closer to the center (though to be fair, this is because I counted several of my posts attacking Islam as "left-wing"). Cody is the only big outlier so far.

[KaiserDave]

Apolitical: 74
Left: 47
Right: 4

[Del Tachi]

Left: 3
Neutral:  97
Right:  25

[Diabolical Materialism]

Left: 29

Right: 18

Non: 53

[OSR stands with Israel]

Right : 38

Left: 1

Neutral: 61

[Conservatopia]

Left: 10
Neutral: 87
Right: 3

This is embarrassing.

The "Left" posts are mostly me mocking the Tory Party, the "Neutral" ones are mostly my usual inane drivel and puns and the "Right" posts are me saying what party I would vote for.

[Aurelius]

Left: 10
Neutral: 87
Right: 3

This is embarrassing.

The "Left" posts are mostly me mocking the Tory Party, the "Neutral" ones are mostly my usual inane drivel and puns and the "Right" posts are me saying what party I would vote for.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Left: 24
Neutral: 91
Right:10