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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"swing states"”.
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The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech
… released, had a meaningful impact on polls in swing states and likely voters, appeals to the narrative of the welfare queen, a longstanding social narrative about entitlement spending. By using Walter Fisher's (1984) Narrative Paradigm as a lens of critical analysis, I argue that Romney's …
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The Impact of Campaign Visits on Predicted Voter Choice in the 2016 Presidential Election
… voters. Throughout the analysis, both safe and swing states were taken into consideration, to determine if campaigns have a similar impact in different types of states. Overall, fourteen individual states were examined, providing a rather small sample size, but focusing on where campaigns were …
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
… data from the 2016 presidential election from states that were considered swing states. Specifically, this study examines six total polls, three from states that swung in the way the polls predicted they would – Nevada and Virginia – and three from states that swung against the prediction – …
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Essays on abstention in the United States Senate
… voting model to study roll-calls in the United States Senate, and empirically test its implications. In this procedure, senators cast their votes in a sequence, exogenously determined by the alphabetical order of their last names. I categorize senators into multiple types whose utilities depend …