… Neil Newhouse, a leading Republican pollster, said that both private and public polling indicated that Americans, regardless of political affiliation, had markedly negative feelings toward China over issues including trade and technology theft. “It becomes an easy punching bag for politicians, both Republicans and Democrats,” he said in an […] Read more »
Message testing coronavirus response
On behalf of Groundwork Collaborative, Data for Progress conducted a message test around President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic in order to determine the most effective messaging for progressives to use in highlighting the President’s responsibility for the public health and economic crises that have arisen due to […] Read more »
The primaries, the polls, and the political landscape ‘where only the last 72 hours seems to matter’
BuzzFeed News reporter Katherine Miller and CNN senior writer and analyst Harry Enten debrief about the past week of Democratic politics and how the stunning developments have been framed by the news media. Joe Biden’s victories were due “in part because people really wanted clarity in the field,” Miller says: […] Read more »
The Right Frame: Did broadcasters show ‘systemic bias’ by focusing on seats?
Writing at LSE Blogs, Prof Pippa Norris (Harvard) and Prof Patrick Dunleavy (LSE) say the BBC coverage — based on the broadcasters’ exit poll — established “a dominant narrative…with no counter-notes of any kind”. The article’s central claim that vote share information only came after 5am is likely to be […] Read more »
The Exit Poll, BBC Election Night and systemic media bias
The main lines of British political culture over the next four and a half years were constituted by the election of 12 December, and especially by how the broadcasters, especially the BBC, represented the results overnight. … The centrepiece of election night programming across all broadcast channels was the single […] Read more »
A Split Decision From Congress Will Leave Voters With Final Say on Trump
… Everyone is playing their assigned role in a drama where the ending seems known in advance as the House of Representatives heads toward a likely party-line vote to impeach the president, followed by a Senate trial that will not convict him. But if the outcome of the showdown on […] Read more »