The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. The report, “Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,” documents how highly partisan right-wing sources helped shape […] Read more »
Pollster Frank Luntz talks about ‘words that work’ at Western Governors’ Annual Meeting
Dr. Frank Luntz, the pollster whose “Instant Response” technique has made him one of the country’s most influential communication professionals, delivered an impassioned keynote at the WGA Annual Meeting in Montana on June 27, 2017. CONT. Western Governors’ Association Read more »
Making the Facts Not Matter
People get a clearer picture if you tell them what someone or something is rather than telling them what it isn’t. I’ve said that a few times in this blog. … But it’s something that Donald Trump seems to know instinctively. … When the news or opponents point out that […] Read more »
Democrats Look to Capitalize on ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
How should Democrats fight Pres. Trump? The exact opposite way Hillary Clinton did. Jefrey Pollock joins MTP Daily to explain. NBC News Read more »
Democrats have basic fact problem
We ran a new PredictWise/Pollfish Poll on facts about politics on January 26, 2017 and found that Republican talking points are much more salient than Democratic talking points. This is not a story about partisan asymmetry around what people believe (although that exists), but about how Democrats also believe key […] Read more »
‘Repeal and Replace’: Words Still Hanging Over G.O.P.’s Health Care Strategy
In March 2010, on the day before President Obama was to sign the Affordable Care Act into law, a group of senior Republican aides huddled in Senator Mitch McConnell’s Capitol suite to try to come up with a catchy slogan to use against it. Many conservatives were simply advocating a […] Read more »