ANN ARBOR – ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR. Wednesday, October 14 at 1pm, EDT: https://youtu.be/GiVedWB1ppM Panelists: Michael Traugott (Research Professor Emeritus; Center for Political Studies, Communication Studies, Department of Political Science), Josh Pasek (Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies Associate Professor; Department of Communication Studies and Political Science),… Continue reading ISR Insights: The State of the 2020 Presidential Campaign with Less than a Month to Go
News Tag: Politics
Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
ANN ARBOR—Newspaper coverage of COVID-19 is at least as politicized and polarized as climate change coverage, say University of Michigan researchers. Both newspaper and network news COVID-19 stories were polarized in early coverage of the pandemic, which may have shaped pandemic attitudes, according to a new U-M analysis of U.S. media coverage from March to… Continue reading Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
Discussing Election Day and Vote-by-Mail
ANN ARBOR – In this episode of Michigan Minds, Michael Traugott, research professor at the Center for Political Studies, explores postponing the presidential election and whether there are fraudulent concerns with mail-in voting after President Trump tweeted about both topics on Thursday, July 30. Traugott, who participated in a research project in Oregon in 1995… Continue reading Discussing Election Day and Vote-by-Mail