In yesterday’s post, I noted a number of opportunities for research on the economics of social media. At least one of those opportunities intersected with the impact of traditional media. So, I was interested to read this new article by Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna (all ETH Zurich), and Christopher Warshaw (George Washington University), published…
The impact of Fox News on American democracy
The impact of Fox News on American democracy
20 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, industrial organisation, politics - USA Tags: 2008 presidential election, 2012 presidential election, 2016 US presidential election, 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election, media bias
When The Democrats Loved Trump
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in economic history, politics - USA, television, TV shows Tags: 2016 US presidential election, 2024 presidential election, regressive left
Joe Rogan has just dropped some amazing video of Donald Trump in 2011. Watch. That was in 2011. The crowd gives him a standing ovation. Barbara Walters, who used to host The View, greets Trump as “My friend”, and he engages in hugs and kisses with… Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg! He even says the […]
When The Democrats Loved Trump
Can Democracy Survive the “Defenders of Democracy”?
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election, 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the Nazis in World War II. Clinton previously called on Europe to censor American […]
Can Democracy Survive the “Defenders of Democracy”?
Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces a Reckoning of Biblical Proportions on Cross Examination
14 May 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will be bad. Years ago, Cohen threatened a journalist and told […]
Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces a Reckoning of Biblical Proportions on Cross Examination
Who is running for president, now that Romney is out
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in politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election
What Might Persuade Hillary Clinton Not To Run In 2016 | FiveThirtyEight
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in politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton
How Good Are Jeb’s Chances?
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 US presidential election
Also note the difference in the voting record and public issue statements of Rand Paul.
There is no front runner in the Republican race at the moment.
I think one of the lesser known candidates will be the eventual winner. Will be neither of Jeb Bush or Rand Paul.
by Dish Staff
Nate Silver and his team created “ideological scores for a set of plausible 2016 Republican candidates based on a combination of three statistical indices: DW-Nominate scores (which are based on a candidate’s voting record in Congress), CFscores (based on who donates to a candidate) and OnTheIssues.org scores (based on public statements made by the candidate)”:
Bush scores at a 37 on this scale, similar to Romney and McCain, each of whom scored a 39. He’s much more conservative than Huntsman, who rates at a 17.
Still, Bush is more like his father, George H.W. Bush, who rates as a 33, than his brother George W. Bush, who scores a 46. And the Republican Party has moved to the right since both Poppy and Dubya were elected. The average Republican member in the 2013-14 Congress rated a 51 on this scale, more in line with potential candidates…
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