Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising

Benson, Seth; Limbocker, Scott

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“…These results emphasize media outlets' considerable influence and ideological orientations in shaping political preferences and voting decisions. The role of media in informing, persuading, and potentially biasing voters' choices is evident, reflecting the power of media consumption patterns in the political landscape (DellaVigna and Kaplan, 2005;Jones, 2020;Jurkowitz et al, 2020;Nelson, 2020;Stelter, 2020;Grant et al, 2021;Belcastro et al, 2022;Benson and Limbocker, 2023;Fujiwara et al, 2023).…”

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Exploring the link between public health compliance and voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Nkouaga

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted society and politics, particularly in the context of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Public officials' unpreparedness resulted in skepticism regarding government responses. Additionally, health inequities and political polarization profoundly influenced voter attitudes and behaviors.MethodsThis study employs statistical techniques to examine voting patterns, leveraging data from the 2021 African American COVID-19 Vaccine Polls (AACVP) alongside the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS). Specifically, it utilizes logistic regression and t-tests to dissect and understand the dichotomous electoral decisions made by voters between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election. The research analyzes the nuances of the electorate's behavior by considering many factors that may influence the binary vote decision.ResultsT-tests revealed significant mean differences in voting patterns based on public health compliance, with less compliant individuals more likely to vote for Trump and more compliant individuals favoring Biden. Logistic regression analysis showed a substantial statistical correlation between public health compliance and voting preferences, independent of confounding variables.DiscussionThe study confirmed that public health compliance during the pandemic impacted voting behavior, with a divide based on attitudes toward health measures. This reflected broader societal divisions, suggesting that public health behaviors are linked with political identities. Additionally, media sources and racial identity significantly influenced voting decisions.

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Exploring the link between public health compliance and voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Nkouaga

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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“…For members of Congress, bill sponsorship (Rocca and Gordon 2010) and earmarking (Rocca and Gordon 2013) activities can be effective tools for generating campaign contributions from interest groups and lobbyists. Other work has shown that legislators can raise significant sums from donors simply by appearing on cable TV news (Benson and Limbocker 2023).…”

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Out-Of-State Donors and Legislative Surrogacy in the U.S. Senate

Keena

2024

Political Research Quarterly

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Studies show that the extraordinary growth in campaign expenditures is fueled by a small, elite subset of the donor population that gives generously to candidates across the country. It is often assumed that the wealthy influence policy outcomes through such gifts to politicians; however, the representational benefits of giving to politicians out-of-state are unclear. What do donors gain legislatively when they give to legislators living out-of-state? I study the campaign financing of US senators over three decades (1989–2018) and find that senators receive the most money from out-of-state donors when they face reelection and risk losing. In this context, donors invest in the collective benefits of party representation when they give money to out-of-state senators. However, when giving to senators “off cycle,” out-of-state donors behave as “consumers” who reward senators for the positions they have taken. Each bill sponsored by a senator when they are not up for reelection leads to a corresponding increase of about 1% in receipts from out-of-state donors. These results offer a more complete view of the legislative surrogacy that the wealthy receive when they give to politicians out-of-state and suggest possible links between campaign contributions and public policy outcomes.

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Developing a Natural Language Understanding Model to Characterize Cable News Bias

Benson,

Cruickshank

2024

IEEE Access

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Media bias has been extensively studied by both social and computational sciences. However, current work still has a large reliance on human input and subjective assessment to label biases. This is especially true for cable news, which has a continued presence in American media but a lack of textbased bias identification in research. To address these issues, we develop an unsupervised machine learning method to characterize the bias of cable news programs without any human input. This method relies on the analysis of what topics are mentioned through Named Entity Recognition and how those topics are discussed through Stance Analysis in order to cluster programs with similar biases together. Applying our method to 2020 cable news transcripts, we find that cable news programs tend to cluster together consistently over time and roughly correspond to the cable news network of the program. This method reveals the potential for future tools to more objectively assess media bias and characterize unfamiliar media environments, and the empirical results insight into the nature of bias in American cable news programs.

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Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Relationship Between Cable News Appearances and House Candidate Fundraising

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Exploring the link between public health compliance and voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Exploring the link between public health compliance and voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Out-Of-State Donors and Legislative Surrogacy in the U.S. Senate

Developing a Natural Language Understanding Model to Characterize Cable News Bias

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