Tag: polling
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2020 Elections & The Media: Disinformation
The 2020 election showed a rise in the power of social media, as well as the problems with social media. Campaigns spent hundreds of millions of dollars advertising on social media. However, there were questions about whether social media companies were simply allowing candidates to spread false information. At the same time, foreign operatives and […]
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2020 Elections & Civil Liberties: Campaigning
The 2020 election was the most expensive in history by a wide margin. More money was spent by candidates for federal office in 2020 than in 2016 and 2012 combined. This largely happened because in last few years the Supreme Court has struck down limits on campaign spending and donations on Freedom of Speech grounds. […]
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2020 Elections & Public Opinion: The Polls
Before the election, respected national polls were showing Joe Biden receiving somewhere between 50 and 52 percent of the vote. These same polls showed Donald Trump receiving between 40 and 44 percent of the vote. In the end, the national polls correctly predicted Biden’s vote share, but missed on Trump’s vote share. At the state […]