Josh Pasek and Michael Traugott wrote the article

What voters were focused on seemed to have major consequences in 2016, when Gallup found the word “email” dominated what people said they heard about Hillary Clinton during the campaign. “Indeed, the second-, third- and fourth-most-frequently used words associated with Clinton also relate to emails: “FBI,” “investigation” and “scandal,” wrote Gallup’s Frank Newport and Andrew… Continue reading Those who love Trump and those who hate him are paying the most attention to him

The experts are: Shawn Parry-Giles, director of the Mark and Heather Rosenker Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland; and Ted Brader, a political science professor at the University of Michigan and the author of “Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work.” They look at… Continue reading Political ads aim to steer your emotions. Here’s how they do that

All that said, there are a few potentially troubling outcomes even if Democrats take one or more houses of Congress. Mickey noted that such a development runs the risk of encouraging more unilateral action from Trump, a kind of “constitutional hardball” that contributes to a concentration of power in the presidency, itself a democratic risk… Continue reading Rob Mickey speaks to Vox about the possibilities of the midterm elections and “backsliding”

Walter Mebane, a professor of political science and statistics at the University of Michigan and co-author of a 2017 guide to election forensics for the U.S. Agency for International Development, urges caution when attributing election anomalies to possible fraud. “The problem is that many of the patterns that look irregular according to many statistical methods… Continue reading What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?

Those in the United States who disagree strongly on many issues at least can agree that this is an extremely divided nation.¶¶That’s a start, says Arthur Lupia, the Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, professor of political science, and research professor at the Center for Political Studies.¶¶He says it is in such areas… Continue reading Teach-out to encourage common ground in turbulent times

Angry Americans will be more likely to vote, and Democrats are generally more angry about their hot-button issues than Republicans, according to the Reuters/Ipsos data. That is a change from two years ago, when Republicans and Democrats were equally furious, said Nicholas Valentino, a voter behavior expert at the University of Michigan who collaborated on… Continue reading Valentino comments on the change in atmosphere surrounding election polls since 2016

Christian Sandvig was named the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor in Digital Media by the University of Michigan Board of Regents. This is a newly-created professorship, which honors H. Marshall McLuhan, who is best known for the theorization of digital media. Congratulations, Christian!