It seems like a lot of FiveThirtyEight's non-main writers are basically there to throw red meat clickbait to its reader base of white liberals. The formula seems to be:
1. Find an issue that touches on some liberal value, such as disproportionate impacts on minorities, gun violence, whatever.
2. Use fairly obvious statistical evidence to show that something liberals like/dislike does, in fact, have an effect. Don't necessarily spend a ton of time contextualizing how much impact it does have.
3. Don't actually get into the impact or implications much, so you don't have to address counterarguments. Just keep to the article limited to doing (2) to accomplish (1).
It's also kind of funny how, in many articles, they'll put in a lot of caveats about how there might be other, missing data...but then on something like their "voter fraud barely exists" article, the entire article is premised on ignoring that possibility.
Anyway yeahhh not a fan
