A Fox News executive sent a memo to television producers and the politics team on Tuesday afternoon reminding employees that unscientific online polls “do not meet our editorial standards.” Dana Blanton, the vice president of public-opinion research at Fox News, explained in the memo obtained by Business Insider that “online […] Read more »
Why Do Debate ‘Expectations’ Matter?
… The role of expectations in framing press evaluations of presidential debates is sufficiently familiar that we are now regularly subjected to meta-analyses of the “expectations game” in which members of the media evaluate how well the campaigns are manipulating the media. Less commonly discussed, however, is why this practice […] Read more »
What We Are Hearing About Clinton and Trump
This election season, most Americans are paying attention to the presidential candidates on a daily basis. That’s good news, but what Americans report reading and hearing about Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton has to make us wonder about the value of the hyper-prolonged, exhausting modern-day campaign process. With a […] Read more »
‘Email’ Dominates What Americans Have Heard About Clinton
Americans’ reports of what they have read, seen or heard about Hillary Clinton over the past two months are dominated by references to her handling of emails while she was secretary of state. By contrast, Americans’ reports of what they have read, seen or heard about Donald Trump over this […] Read more »
What People Don’t Know About the Clinton Foundation Is Revealing in Itself
A story line has developed around the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton that seems to affect how each new event is interpreted by journalists and the public. It’s variously described as a lack of transparency or even obfuscation. … A few of my colleagues at the University of California, Los […] Read more »
What AP learned about using online surveys to measure support for presidential candidates
… The AP earlier this year commissioned an experiment to see if an online, probability-based survey could estimate candidate support among both advance and Election Day voters more accurately than the combined exit poll of Election Day voters and telephone poll of advance voters. That’s the dual, and increasingly costly, […] Read more »