POL 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Carly Fiorina

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 401
• Professor: Uscinski Joseph

Document Summary

News as a business need for news to be profitable. More interesting news stories, more competitive races, when the office at stake has more authority: novelty-recent stories, personality-compelling people, conflict, skepticism, strategy=horse race journalism interpretive journalism. Two things that matter most in campaign: raising money and media coverage. Pre-nomination period sometimes referred to as the money primary . The candidates: republicans: trump, dr. ben carson, carly fiorina (summer/fall 2015) The candidates: democrats: hilary clinton, bernie sanders, joe biden, on democratic side, clinton raised more money during pre-nomination period than other candidates. Jan 31, 2016 trump 35. 8% for republican candidates in national poll results, Empirical=evidence based, facts, data, driven by observation. Endogeneity: a b (candidate with most money wins) B a (and c b and c a) (best candidates attract more money) Behavioralism: 1950s scholars want to use theory and evidence to understand why people do what they do/think what they do.