There is a stark partisan divide over who’s to blame for misinformation circulating during the presidential election season, according to new research from the George Washington University. A nationwide survey found Republicans and Democrats are highly concerned about the spread of misinformation and the potential impacts it might have on […] Read more »
Americans are drowning in a sea of polls
42% of media coverage of the 2016 election focused on the horserace. Photobank Gallery/Shutterstock.com Michael Traugott, University of Michigan Polls have become an essential part of the news, particularly in the run-up to an election. Reports on polls feed into what’s often called “horserace coverage” – who is ahead or […] Read more »
Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election
Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) express little or no confidence in technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January. At the same time, 78% say these companies have […] Read more »
Candidates say they want to build momentum with voters – but what is that actually worth?
Before the primary, Buttigieg said his campaign had the ‘strongest momentum.’ AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Daniel Palazzolo, University of Richmond and Ernest B. McGowen III, University of Richmond “I’ve got the ‘Big Mo,’” said George H. Bush after winning the Iowa caucuses in 1980. “We are the campaign with the strongest […] Read more »
It’s Time to De-Hype the Iowa Caucuses
The Iowa Democratic Party certainly deserves plenty of blame for the disastrous problems with the delayed tabulation of the results from Monday night’s caucus. … Still, there was something a bit unseemly about major media figures taking to cable news and social media to blast the state party for failing […] Read more »
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It’s Still Influencing What You Read.
The Des Moines Register spiked its poll Saturday night, but by the next day it seemed most reporters here had seen the numbers — or something purporting to be the numbers. … Here are what some reporters told me about how the poll affected their work: CONT. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed […] Read more »