Talk Tracker - Economy, Pandemic and Race Relations Over Time

CHARTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED EVERY 3 DAYS

What we Measure and Report On

Several reputed polls like the NBC News/WSJ Survey, Pew Research Center survey, NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist Poll and the CNN SSRS Poll have reported that the top three dominant issues on voters’ minds in the upcoming elections are: the coronavirus pandemic, economy and race relations. NMDSI’s Elecurator project is therefore collecting and analyzing posts on major social media sites like Twitter and Reddit as well as on online blogs and forums about these three topics.

For each of the three dominant issues, we present the following analyses:

1. Total number of social media and online posts (number of mentions): We compare the number of daily mentions on the topic that also refer to Joe Biden or Donald Trump starting from June 1, 2020.

2. Total number of people who could have seen the posts on Twitter or (impressions): over the same period, we chart the daily impressions of mentions on the topic that also refer to Joe Biden or Donald Trump

3. Number of people who could have seen posts on the topic on Twitter and other social media sites like Reddit, forums and blogs or (reach): over many days, we compare the reach of mentions on the topic that also refer to Joe Biden and Donald Trump