Four weeks after the election, tensions between top operatives at the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns erupted during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics discussion that was intended to record history by drawing out the internal deliberations of both campaigns. … There were periods of calm, substantive discussion […] Read more »
Campaign for President 2016: The General Election
Representatives from the Clinton and Trump campaigns joined together to discuss the general election. The roundtable was moderated by Dan Balz for The Washington Post, Katherine Miller for Buzzfeed, and Andrea Mitchell for MSNBC. Institute of Politics, Harvard University Read more »
Campaign for President 2016: Interview with Nate Silver
Nancy Cordes, Congressional Correspondent for CBS News, spoke with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight about polling during the 2016 election. Institute of Politics, Harvard University Read more »
Algorithmic Bias: How the Clinton Campaign May Have Lost the Presidency or Why You Should Care
We’ve recently been informed that the Clinton campaign relied heavily on an automated decision aid to inform senior campaign leaders about likely scenarios in the election. This algorithm—known as “Ada”—was a key component, if not “the” component in how senior staffers formulated campaigning strategy. … So what happened with Clinton’s […] Read more »
What’s the Matter With Kansas? aptly describes the 2016 election — but was written in 2004
Thomas Frank’s 2004 book What’s the Matter With Kansas? ignited something of a firestorm within political science. It was attempting to explain recent trends in American politics, but its analysis wasn’t reflected in much actual data. Yet that book explains the 2016 election far better than it did the election […] Read more »
Nearly One in Five Female Clinton Voters Say Husband or Partner Didn’t Vote
A survey released today casts new light on the challenges Hillary Clinton faced in motivating her supporters in the final weeks of the election. While roughly two-thirds (66 percent) of women who voted for Clinton report their husband or partner also voted for Clinton, nearly one in five (19 percent) […] Read more »