Three quarters of the Bernie Sanders campaign’s doorstep canvassing was wrong
A piece about the importance of text messaging in (US) political campaigning had this eye-catching statistic buried deep within it. … Read the full post »
2020 US Presidential election
Read about the 2020 US Presidential election, coming four years after Donald Trump’s highly controversial election.
A very old form of political polling makes a return in the US
Interesting news from the US on how CNN is reacting to the problems the polls had in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential elections. … Read the full post »
How digital advertising can swing votes and raise turnout
There’s an excellent discussion of the impact of political adverts in the US which also acts as a clear overview of what political advertising is about and how it’s done. … Read the full post »
PODCAST – The dilemma for progressives: lessons from the US 2020 elections
I was joined again on Never Mind The Bar Charts by Rob Blackie to talk about the early lessons from the 2020 US Presidential elections for the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Imagine how different the US election results would feel if…
… this has been the first headline about the US Presidency on election night rather than news from Florida. … Read the full post »
A very striking finding about the modern state of the Conservative Party
Assuming the figures are accurate (and ConHome’s leadership surveys seem to have been), this is a very striking finding about the modern state of the Conservative Party… … Read the full post »
How not to report a poll: The Independent and JL Partners
After 2016, it’s understandable why media outlets are taking care to emphasise that even polls showing Joe Biden clearly ahead of Donald Trump… … Read the full post »
How to react well when something goes wrong on a campaign
Recently the Joe Biden campaign messed up its data a bit, and as a result one of the campaigns volunteers unknowingly rang the campaign’s deputy campaign manager… … Read the full post »
Postal voting fake news in the US: the wrong algorithms get the blame
“Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign” – this new research shows it isn’t social media algorithms that are primarily to blame but rather another type of algorithm. … Read the full post »
PODCAST – Who is going to win the US Presidency?
I headed across the Atlantic in the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts to talk about the US elections. For that I was joined by US politics podcaster Karin Robinson of the Democratically: 2020 show. … Read the full post »