As a graduate student in economics, I have used Google search data to quantify the cost of racism on President Barack Obama’s vote total. I compared the rate at which areas made racist searches on Google to Obama’s vote share, controlling for the vote share of the previous Democratic candidate, […] Read more »
Obama Campaign Shared ’08 Polling With Silver
Obama’s polling analysts, [Sasha] Issenberg writes, wanted to test their internal polls against [Nate] Silver’s model. And so — in an unusual step for the closely-held campaign, and for the analyst, who was then running his own website, FiveThirtyEight.com — the Obama campaign offered Silver access to thousands of its […] Read more »
Do Presidential Campaigns Matter? Evidence From the 2008 Election
… All of the campaign visits and all of the money being spent on television ads raise an important question for scholars and interested observers of presidential elections: How much difference does all of this campaigning and spending make? [cont.] Alan Abramowitz, Emory U. Read more »