Patrick Ruffini ✓

@PatrickRuffini · Virginia · joined 12 Mar 2007

Pollster @EchelonInsights, married an Iowa girl, here for the Realignment, author of Party of the People — “the book that predicted the 2024 election.”

66 593Followers

2 802Following

95 759Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views5 204this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.81%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.45%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 204	2 896	1.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.81%	9.51%	0.82×
Engagement rate	0.45%	1.56%	0.29×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

144.4K19 Oct

2.9K3 Sep

925.3K

5.2K

95.1K

1.9K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.05%19 Oct

0.45%3 Sep

1.01%

0.48%

0.12%

0.37%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes88.6%8 528 in total

Reposts4.3%412 in total

Replies5.4%524 in total

Quotes1.4%131 in total

Bookmarks0.3%32 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Is there a policy equivalent to urbanites that’s dedicated to arguing that we actually should all live like farmers or suburbanites and other ways of living are bad? People will sometimes vibes-post stuff like that, but they don’t have think tanks. 1.9K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Two things can be true at once: Many of the underlying metrics for the GOP can be worse than 2018 - Trump approval, specials, primary turnout, and... Voting continuing to get more partisan since 2018 such that Trump +10 or more states & districts are virtually impregnable 95.1K views · 84 likes · 7 reposts · 19 replies 03 Sep 2026 Infer whatever probabilities from this that you will, here's my read on the rank ordering as of now (assuming Dems hold all they currently have) #48 NC #49 ME #50 AK #51 TX - majority #52 OH So yeah, $$$ into Texas is important. 5.2K views · 18 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Costco haul culture transfers the cost of storing goods from the retailer to the household. In a city, you can live with a smaller kitchen, pantry, and refrigerator because the neighborhood itself functions as your pantry. Multiple grocers, bakeries, pharmacies, etc are storing 925.3K views · 8.4K likes · 394 reposts · 484 replies 03 Sep 2026 Have always thought of Moulton as a more wholesome Swalwell, that was my mental model during the 2020 primaries 2.9K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 Coming November 4: The paperback edition of Party of the People, with a new epilogue on the 2024 election. https://t.co/kUtAcHSJsK 144.4K views · 55 likes · 7 reposts · 11 replies 19 Oct 2025