The Internet lit up on Monday over the news, reported in New York Magazine, that a team of computer scientists and lawyers had reported to the Clinton campaign that “they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked.” … Many of my […] Read more »
Are voters likely to accept the presidential election results?
The Trump campaign has raised the possibility that the 2016 election may be rigged, and concerns about voter fraud resonate with some registered voters. Twenty-three percent of voters think widespread voter fraud happens a lot, and another 32 percent think it happens sometimes. Trump voters are far more likely to […] Read more »
The Polling Conspiracy
Donald Trump’s supporters have taken up the claim that polls are rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton because they “oversample” Democrats. The charge is based on emails published by Wikileaks, in which the 2008 Clinton campaign considers oversampling Hispanic and Native American voters. Micah Cohen of FiveThirtyEight says the claim […] Read more »
The Paranoid Style in American Politics Is Back
… With the odds now favoring a narrow Clinton victory, what would the ramifications be after Nov. 8 if she beats Trump by three or fewer percentage points? First and foremost, the anticipation of such a defeat has released in the Trump camp what the historian Richard Hofstadter famously described […] Read more »
A Clearer Portrait Emerges of Trump Supporters
… “Trump’s supporters are distinctive in their unique combination of anti-expertise, anti-elitism, and pro-nationalist sentiments,” political scientists J. Eric Oliver and Wendy Rahn write in the Annals of the American Association of Political and Social Science. “Trump’s supporters are also distinctive in their high levels of conspiratorial thinking, nativism, and […] Read more »
Poll conspiracy theorists target Monmouth’s Patrick Murray
During the Republican presidential primary, frontrunner Donald Trump referred to Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray as “highly respected.” Trump’s supporters apparently now don’t feel the same way. After weeks of Trump’s supporters promulgating conspiracy theories that pollsters have been rigging their results to boost Clinton, legions of Trump fans on […] Read more »