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"With Kamala Harris officially out of the race, Katie #Porter has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner,
increasing her support from 12% to 18% since the April Emerson poll,”
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said.
“Steve #Hilton, who was not in the race in April, has j…

California 2026 Poll: Porter, Hilton Lead in Race for Governor; Plurality Undecided - Emerson Polling
23% of California Democratic Primary voters support Newsom for 2028 presidential bid A new Emerson…Full Release & Results

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications
Theia Henderson, David R. Karger, David D. Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04889 https://

Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications
Most social applications, from Twitter to Wikipedia, have rigid one-size-fits-all designs, but building new social applications is both technically challenging and results in applications that are siloed away from existing communities. We present Graffiti, a system that can be used to build a wide variety of personalized social applications with relative ease that also interoperate with each other. People can freely move between a plurality of designs -- each with its own aesthetic, feature set…

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, just riffing here]
Plurality voting forces a two-party system. There will always be two parties (or if a third forms, the system will rapidly collapse back to two; this happened twice in US history).
The role of the two parties can change, however. Parties are coalitions, and coalitions are heterogeneous. There are lots of ways to draw lines through the myriad political interests to form two coalitions of roughly equal size. And those lines can shift.
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What I really like to see is that 35% of visitors to Sunset Dunes Park are from adjacent neighborhoods! (That is a plurality, by the way.)

What I really like to see is that 35% of visitors to Sunset Dunes Park are from adjacent neighborhoods! (That is a plurality, by the way.)

On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
Francesco d'Amore, Niccol\`o D'Archivio, George Giakkoupis, Emanuele Natale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20218

On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
We present the first upper bound on the convergence time to consensus of the well-known $h$-majority dynamics with $k$ opinions, in the synchronous setting, for $h$ and $k$ that are both non-constant values. We suppose that, at the beginning of the process, there is some initial additive bias towards some plurality opinion, that is, there is an opinion that is supported by $x$ nodes while any other opinion is supported by strictly fewer nodes. We prove that, with high probability, if the bi…

Independence Axioms in Social Ranking
Takahiro Suzuki, Michele Aleandri, Stefano Moretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21836 https://arx…

Independence Axioms in Social Ranking
Independence from non-essential changes in input information is a widely recognized axiom in social choice theory. This independence reduces the cost of specifying and/or analyzing non-essential data. This study makes a comprehensive analysis of independence axioms in the context of social ranking solutions (SRSs). We consider seven independence axioms (two of which are new) and provide a novel characterization of the lexicographic excellence solution and plurality by substituting these indepen…

A Reuters/Ipsos poll releasedThursday found that
🔥62 percent of self-identified Democrats said that the party should replace Democrats with new leaders,
with only 24 percent disagreeing with that statement.
A plurality of respondents, at 49 percent, said that they’re unsatisfied with current leaders.
The survey included over 4,200 respondents, including 1,293 Democrats, and was conducted earlier this month

62 Percent of Democrats Want Current Party Leaders to Be Replaced, Poll Finds
Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency.

The Australian Vote: Transferable Voting, Its Limitations and Strengths
Anthony B. Morton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15383 https://ar…

The Australian Vote: Transferable Voting, Its Limitations and Strengths
The voting systems known as Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferable Vote (STV) are extensively used for elections in Australia, possibly more than in any other jurisdiction. Often proposed as superior alternatives to Plurality and other common systems, they are also criticised by theoreticians for their vulnerability to paradoxical outcomes. It is argued these 'transferable voting' systems in fact operate to balance competing desiderata that attempt to distil the common notions of 'majori…