They weren’t trying to write a political story, not really.
Mark Muro and his colleagues at the Brookings Institution published what looked like a dry geographic analysis earlier this month — a deep dive into which American counties have the most workers exposed to artificial intelligence. The headline finding was almost an afterthought: 62 of the 100 most AI-exposed counties in the United States voted Democratic in 2024. The authors noted the correlation carefully, distanced themselves from causal claims, and moved on.
