David Jarman

PA's Austin Davis on electing more LG's like him Listen now | And Virginia Democrats advance amendments to protect abortion, marriage, and voting rights

ICYMI yesterday, the Downballot podcast focused on some of the unsung heroes of the electoral realm: Lieutenant Governors (featuring Pennsylvania LG Austin Davis) -- whose numbers are about to expand, with Arizona soon to elect its first LG. www.the-downballot.com/p/pas-austin...

All the estimates of Springfield's Haitian population are wrong Forget the sensationalized reports. The real figure is much smaller.

Additionally, Springfield’s housing vacancy rate remains unchanged (and high) at 13.1%.

For our original Sept. post attempting to debunk this swath of misinformation, see:
www.the-downballot.com/p/all-the-es...

The actual number is presumably higher (the ACS reflects a rolling sample over 5 years and this is a ’hard-to-reach’ population), but also consider that the allegedly explosive growth of Springfield is in fact negative, now 58,410 total (down from 58,645 last year) data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5...

Checking back on last Sept.’s brief moral panic, the Census Bureau today issued new 2019-23 ACS data; they continue to find little evidence of a large influx of Haitian residents in Springfield, OH, finding 507 people reporting Haitian ancestry (up from 402 last year) data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5...