Politicians are especially deft at deflection, which is the tactic of answering a question with a question that steers the conversation in a different direction. It's not an easy skill, but former President Donald Trump mastered ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2021
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How confident should you be in election polls? Not nearly as confident as the pollsters claim, according to a new Berkeley Haas study.
Political science
Oct 27, 2020
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While public discussion during and after the 2016 presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton largely focused on emails and email servers, a team of political science scholars zeroed in on email communications ...
Political science
May 4, 2020
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With the presidential election a year away, pollsters will barrage the country with poll questions to get the pulse of the voters about the candidates.
Political science
Nov 7, 2019
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The polls were wrong in the last US and Australian federal elections. Hillary Clinton was favored to win at a margin of 85% to Donald Trump's 15%. And Bill Shorten was expected to defeat Scott Morrison.
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2019
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The 2020 election is approaching—how should we talk with children about this election and about politics more broadly? The findings of a new multisite study of children's reactions to the 2016 U.S. presidential election ...
Education
Sep 10, 2019
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Nearly three years later, it's rare to read a postmortem of the 2016 presidential election that doesn't include at least a passing mention of one of the electorate's more elusive unicorns: the Obama-to-Trump voter.
Political science
Jul 25, 2019
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Both Democratic and Republican Party front-runners benefited from preferential visual coverage during the televised 2016 presidential primary debates, according to a new study published by University of Arkansas political ...
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2019
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With the growing popularity of social media, Twitter has become a prominent place to voice opinions on both ends of the political spectrum. With the ability to follow those who only argue one side, voices of people who are ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2019
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A piece of not-fake-news: there has been a 45-percent increase in people tweeting about embarrassment since Donald Trump took office. In an analysis of Twitter traffic between June 2015 and June 2017, researchers revealed ...
Political science
Mar 27, 2019
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