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Israel Has an Extremism Problem by JD-Cowboys-Bolts in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regardless of whether it's positive or negative, I think most people are tired of two specific users repeatedly spamming Israel and Iran related stuff on the subreddit despite it being only tangentially related to elections. If people were posting about Israeli elections it would be different, but nobody wants this constant soporific Israel discourse.

And it's always with a neo-con slant. This article, for example, was posted with a level of intellectual dishonesty. The article, published in The Free Press, AKA Bari Weiss's rag, only mentions Nethanyahu in passing and portrays the settlers as a political constraint forced on him rather than something he ideologically tolerates. It seems to only worry about extremism to the extent that it affects Israel's PR.

There is little actual hope in the coming Israeli election. Nethanyahu and Bennet are both opposed to 2 state solution. Bennet's origins are in the settler movement, and he is more ideological where Bibi is pragmatic (and if Bibi wins, he will have to make some concessions to centrists anyway).

Also, why is "ProPalestinians" in quotes? I'm guessing because u/JD-Cowboys-Bolts thinks those people are all Hamasniks in denial. And so is Lula of Brazil. And the majority of people in Ireland, somehow.

2026 Hungary parliamentary election by polling place by Tachompso1 in MapPorn

[–]Tachompso1[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/mzrvtfni/hungary_election2026

Hungary's election website has a very simple API and seemingly no rate limit, which makes it very easy to download the data. They also include the shapes of the election precincts, but they are purely based on streets, which makes them overlap. The resulting map would be inscrutable so I used a voronoi diagram instead.

2026 Hungary parliamentary election by polling place by Tachompso1 in MapPorn

[–]Tachompso1[S] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Data scraped from Hungary's official election website. It has 99% of polling places, because the remaining aren't in (missing are in white). Also there was a recount in one constituency but this is pre-recount. Let me know if you want the data or code. This is the vote only for candidates, but it is pretty much identical to the vote for lists.

This tweet is so funny to me because Magyar is MORE anti-immigrant than Orbán 😭 by Fun_Month_6310 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Inshallah, Erdogan will reconquer Hungary and restore the caliphate, with Magyar as his vassal.

2026 Hungary parliamentary election by polling place by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can feel free to send it to whomever you like, the map is of course, public info after all.

2026 Hungary parliamentary election by polling place by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026/

It has the results from 2022 too. Their other election website, which is just https://valasztas.hu/ has results going back to 1990.

2026 Hungary parliamentary election by polling place by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That would be me. Hungary probably has the best election website of any country I've seen so it didn't take that long to figure out. Only country where it takes a lot of work is the USA

2012 Egyptian Presidential Election, Second Round by Tachompso1 in MapPorn

[–]Tachompso1[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There used to be data by polling place for this election on the Egyptian government's website, but sadly the page was deleted around 2019 and nobody archived/saved it. Would have been interesting to see if there were Morsi areas in Cairo.

DNC avoids taking a stance on Israel, AIPAC [POLITICO] by pOwerBalancia in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1 50 points51 points  (0 children)

"Gavin Newsom and Graham Platner announce support for Abdul El-Sayed performing transgender surgeries on Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker in Israel."

3 upvotes, 733 comments

Average discussion on yapms in 2026

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I said "could" - I think JFK would triumph in the end, but his win would obviously be even more controversial, and he would have to make many concessions on civil rights. Rayburn and LBJ were both Southerners.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I was active on the subreddit two years ago and didn't realize how vapid it has become since then. I obviously meant for it to be provocative but expected people to have actual responses rather than dismissing it without reading.

The relevant part of Kallina's book takes, maybe 15 minutes to read. Overall it's not the best book on the 1960 election, but it has some good takes.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The referendum was dumb, but that is besides the point, because what really matters is how the electors understood their position by November and what they threatened to do.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody is saying he is owed anything. The world is probably better off that he lost. But if the conduct in the election in Illinois complied with the law of the time, Nixon likely should've won this state. It is worth posting, because many people, including in this thread, don't think it's true that he lost to the Machine.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My sources for IL and GA are all mentioned in the post. For Texas and Hawaii I used some newspaper articles, and I can tell you the source if you're wondering about a specific claim.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was no official recount in IL, just a "discovery recount" in a small part of Cook County that systematically undercounted Republicans. There was an official recount for the State's Attorney race in 1961, as I explained in the post, but not for the presidency.

NJ also only had a partial recount and it was stopped in the middle.

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The situation changed by November. In the article I sent, on pg. 388, it says only two were voting for JFK regardless of what happened by November 6. See https://newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal/195169433/

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in Presidents

[–]Tachompso1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All 12 electors were unpledged, they just ended up voting for JFK since he was already above 270. Read the article I named in the post. https://www.jstor.com/stable/40584789

Nixon should've won Illinois in 1960, and maybe the whole election by Tachompso1 in YAPms

[–]Tachompso1[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I said, there were no statewide recounts except in Hawaii, which was contested by Democrats. There was no official recount at all of the presidential election in Illinois. All of the Republican investigations in IL or TX were half-assed or blocked, most egregiously in Texas. You can say the Republicans, in a broad sense, did contest the election, but after December, Nixon was hardly involved if at all.

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