In the summer of 2010, the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight.com, a statistics-based political blog operated by statistician Nate Silver, entered into a three-year partnership agreement. As part of the agreement, the New York Times would host FiveThirtyEight under its banner in the “Politics” section on its website for three years, and, in return, FiveThirtyEight would [...]
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We’ve all heard it a million times. Barack Obama’s internet campaign was revolutionary, entirely responsible for his candidacy and election, and forever changed the way politicians interact with their constituencies. Great. That must have been a wake-up call for McCain and the Republican National Committee, right? I mean, if I had just been handed a decisive [...] The Illinois Follow Up: My first post I made on this blog was in regards to the upcoming senate election in Illinois. I posted: “As of February 4, 2010, Kirk has 2,705 followers and Giannoulias trails with 1,509 followers on Twitter. Similarly, Kirk has 85 videos on YouTube and Giannoulias has 52 videos.” As of today, March 30, [...] Two articles this week made me think about the power of political images to shape citizens’ responses to policy proposals. Newsweek’s article The Polling Contradiction by Sarah Kliff explained the results of a Newsweek poll that asked respondents about President Obama’s healthcare plan (first “without being given any details of the legislation” and then after telling [...] |
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