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Released: 30-Nov-2020 4:30 PM EST
Efficient In-person voting observed by URI VOTES research team
University of Rhode Island

The 2020 election is all but complete, but a team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island is still crunching the numbers – not the number of votes, but the statistics used to determine the efficiency of in-person voting in Rhode Island, Nebraska and Los Angeles.

Released: 19-Nov-2020 3:40 PM EST
NEW: Youth vote up significantly in 2020; young people of color pivotal
Tufts University

Presidential election turnout among young people ages 18-29 reached 52-55%, significantly higher than the 45-48% turnout of 2016, according to a new youth turnout estimate released today from CIRCLE at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 2:25 PM EST
Explaining the religious vote for Trump
Louisiana State University

New research by LSU sociologists indicate it wasn't Christian nationalism that drove churchgoers' Trump vote in 2016. Rather, surprisingly, Christian nationalism was important among non-churchgoers.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 8:15 AM EST
Conservatives and Liberals Motivated by Different Psychological Factors, New Study Shows
New York University

Liberalism and conservatism are associated with qualitatively different psychological concerns, notably those linked to morality, shows a new study.

9-Nov-2020 8:35 AM EST
Analysis of Trump’s tweets reveals systematic diversion of the media
University of Bristol

New research published today in Nature Communications claims to provide the first evidence-based analysis demonstrating the US President’s Twitter account has been routinely deployed to divert attention away from a topic potentially harmful to his reputation, in turn suppressing negative related media coverage.

Released: 5-Nov-2020 2:30 PM EST
Record Number of Women to Serve in the 117th U.S. Congress
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

At least 131 (100D, 31R) women will serve in the U.S. Congress in 2021, surpassing the previous record of 127, first set in 2019, according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.

Released: 4-Nov-2020 6:45 PM EST
Preliminary Results: Women Candidates in the 2020 Elections
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

According to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, at least 126 (96D, 30R) women will serve in the 117th Congress. There are 32 congressional races featuring women candidates that remain too close to call. As outcomes are determined, the information in this release will be updated on this page on the CAWP website; these updates will include both the latest numbers and additional notable milestones that may be achieved by newly-determined results. Find the most current data on women in the 2020 elections, along with interactive data visualizations and historical comparisons, at our Election 2020 Results Tracker.

Released: 4-Nov-2020 5:05 PM EST
NEW: Youth vote again pivotal in presidential race
Tufts University

Although votes continue to be counted, the youth vote has the potential to shape the outcome of the 2020 election and to decide the presidency of the United States, according to analysis out today from CIRCLE, at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

Released: 4-Nov-2020 1:40 PM EST
Surprised the Election Hasn’t Been Called? It’s Not the First Time.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Greenberg discusses other close elections in history and how the media should handle a president who has declared victory before the ballots have all been counted.

Released: 3-Nov-2020 8:20 AM EST
Biden Leads Trump—In Online Searches for Yard Signs
New York University

Online searches for yard signs showing support for Joe Biden outpace those for Donald Trump yard signs, shows a new analysis.

Released: 3-Nov-2020 7:10 AM EST
TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO AVAILABLE: Newswise Live Event for Nov 2nd, the 2020 Presidential Elections
Newswise

Experts from institutions including George Washington University and Cornell University will participate in an expert panel covering a wide variety of topics on the U.S. Elections, with questions prepared by Newswise editors and submissions from media attendees.

Released: 2-Nov-2020 4:05 PM EST
Final GW Election Model Project Using Twitter Activity Forecasts Sizable Biden Victory
George Washington University

The final PEORIA Project election forecast from the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) predicts former Vice President Joe Biden will win the electoral vote count for the 2020 presidential election.

Released: 2-Nov-2020 1:30 PM EST
Most young Americans fear the future, student-designed poll finds
Cornell University

Days before the Nov. 3 presidential election, a majority of Americans – and two-thirds of younger adults – are worried about the nation’s future, according to a national poll designed by Cornell University undergraduates.

Released: 2-Nov-2020 11:10 AM EST
Voters’ Emotional Reactions A Barrier for Trump
George Washington University

How President Trump makes voters feel may be a barrier to his path to victory according to new polling research from the George Washington University.

Released: 30-Oct-2020 5:25 PM EDT
UA Little Rock researchers investigate information campaigns designed to influence 2019 Canadian election
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

A group of researchers from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have published an article that examined the possible use of online media campaigns orchestrated to influence the 2019 Canadian federal election. The article, “The Role of YouTube during the 2019 Canadian Federal Election: A Multi-Method Analysis of Online Discourse and Information Actors,” was published in the Journal of Future Conflict in September.

Released: 30-Oct-2020 12:00 PM EDT
5 Big Questions on Health Care and COVID-19
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

The coronavirus pandemic has once again thrust the unusual state of American health care into the spotlight. With a presidential election that could have a dramatic impact on the state of health care for millions on 3 November, Professor Vivian Riefberg considers the state of the industry.

   
Released: 29-Oct-2020 11:35 AM EDT
How Twitter takes votes away from Trump but not from Republicans
Bocconi University

A popular narrative holds that social media network Twitter influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential elections by helping Republican candidate Donald Trump spread partisan content and misinformation. In a recent interview with CBS News, Trump himself stated he "would not be here without social media."

Released: 29-Oct-2020 10:05 AM EDT
Rutgers Expert Explains QAnon
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture describes QAnon, why it’s well-known and why we should not treat this as a misinformation problem.



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