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by Mathis Lohatepanont and Chitchaya Chimtanoo Photo Credit: Per Meistrup , Wikipedia Creative Commons, Link Thailand’s election season is notorious for bringing out a tsunami of election banners that are stuck on every possible tree and electrical pole. But in the past election, a voter might be forgiven for feeling lost while trying to digest this potentially rich source of information for voter preferences. Thailand’s 2023 banners were interesting because they often contai

by Joel Sawat Selway Figure 1. The Nation's Predictions for Seats in the 2023 Thai General Elections Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/40027280 Thai polling firms seem intent on breaking records for sample sizes this election year! The pollster with the lowest average sample size, NIDA, has polled between 2,000-2,533 respondents. In contrast, the typical sample size for US polls—in a country almost five times larger—is 1,000. But NIDA’s sample size is modest in

by Aim Sinpeng Source: Twitter @Citizen2600 “Let’s run, Hamtaro, the most delicious food is the people’s taxes” shouted Thai protesters as more than a thousand high school and university students ran around the Democracy Monument demanding democracy and justice on July 26. The Hamtaro protest idea, inspired by a popular Japanese cartoon, was crowdsourced on Twitter with the hashtag #IdeaForMob (#ไอเดียออกม็อบ) just 3 days before the protest. “ Judy ,” a second-year Thamma