A data analyst who had worked on the 2012 Obama re-election campaign tweeted earlier this year that violent protests around social issues tend to hurt Democratic candidates during elections.
Data scientist David Shor was let go from a consulting firm working with the Democrats after he tweeted research from Princeton professor Omar Wasow on May 28 – before violence ripped the country apart. The research analyzed public opinion in the 1960s and found that riots reduced the Democrat vote share during the 1968 election.
“Non-violent protests *increase* Dem vote, mainly by encouraging warm elite discourse and media,” Shor tweeted.
Shor’s tweet came just after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died May 25 after a police officer knelt down on his neck for
several minutes, and prior to riots in Portland and other major U.S. cities. His comments also came months before the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday, which resulted in riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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