Election 2020 Project
The Social Science and Social Media Collaborative has teamed up with CNN and their polling partner SSRS to analyze data from weekly polls of Americans collected between the end of June through Election Day.
More information about the project methodology
The research team conducting analysis of the results of this project are Lisa Singh and Jonathan Ladd from Georgetown University; Josh Pasek, Michael Traugott, Ceren Budak and Stuart Soroka from the University of Michigan; and Jennifer Agiesta and Grace Sparks from CNN. Georgetown students Meena Balan, Ryan Callahan, Robert Churchill, Brandon Herren, and Kornraphop (Ken) Kawintiranon also assist with this research.
Recent Updates
As the campaign closes, coronavirus remains the main event (CNN)
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Real-time analysis shows that the first debate shifted attitudes among Twitter users towards Biden and the second solidified them
In new research Lisa Singh, Ceren Budak, Kornraphop Kawintiranon and Stuart Soroka analyzed real-time responses of Twitter uses to the first and second presidential debates. Read more on The LSE US Centre’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy.
These are the big words associated with Trump and Biden as the 2020 campaign closes (CNN)
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Trump’s case of coronavirus changed the conversation (CNN)
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Once again, Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis dominates news about the campaign (CNN)
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Presidential Debate Candidate Stance Analysis
This post looks at the opinions of Twitter users surrounding the first Presidential Debate. We look at content containing at least one debate hashtag, shared immediately before, during, and after the debate; and we determine the “stance” or opinion (for or against) of...