Ultimate absentee ballot: US astronaut votes from space station
At least she didn't have to wait in line.
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2020
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Anxious about the election? Political scientists explain why
There are arguably historic levels of anxiety leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and forthcoming UCR research holds the party faithful on one side are feeling it more than the other.
Political science
Oct 22, 2020
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Foreign election interference: A global response
The increasing threat of foreign interference in elections has driven six nations to take similar approaches to combat this pervasive threat. A review of the details to their responses brings out valuable differences and ...
Political science
Oct 13, 2020
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Coordinated efforts on Twitter to interfere in US elections are foreign-based
A coordinated effort on Twitter to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election—using trolls (fake personas that spread hyper-partisan themes) and super-connectors (highly-networked accounts)—aims to sow distrust, ...
Political science
Oct 8, 2020
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New presidential election forecast runs hourly predictions
Can a 90-minute-long debate change the course of a presidential election? How about a nine-word tweet?
Political science
Oct 8, 2020
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New research determines if political 'air war' or 'ground game' is most effective
New research has shed light on how various political campaign activities influence voters. It found that a candidate's mass media advertising is more likely to influence independent voters, while the campaign's 'ground game,' ...
Political science
Oct 7, 2020
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Judging fact from fiction online
Soon after the 2016 presidential election, as debates raged over "fake news" and its influence on the outcome, a landmark report from researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) provided sobering evidence of ...
Education
Oct 7, 2020
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The 2020 elections will determine which voices dominate public land debates
Presidential elections are anxious times for federal land agencies and the people they serve. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service manage more than a ...
Political science
Oct 6, 2020
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COVID-19 opens a partisan gap on voting by mail
Before the pandemic, there wasn't any difference in the rates at which Democratic and Republican voters actually cast their ballots by mail or in-person. That may change now.
Political science
Sep 23, 2020
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Trump must contend with a mobilized religious left, new research finds
While more than 80 percent of white Evangelicals voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, their mobilization at the congregation level has since generally plateaued, and new research finds that progressive congregations ...
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2020
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