Did Obama's Ground Game Matter?: The Influence of Local Field Offices During the 2008 Presidential Election

Masket, Seth E.

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“…It has proved its effectiveness through the wider mobilization network in history: on the election day, on 4 th November 2008, about 25% of Obama's voters were connected to him through his online networks (Masket, 2009;Plouffe, 2010 (Cepernich, 2017) resides. Moreover, the peculiarity of the Italian general election 2018 is identifiable in the legislative intervention that has abolished public funding for parties.…”

Section: Towards a New Structural Changementioning

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018)

2018

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Research methods in economics and social sciences are evolving with the increasing availability of Internet and Big Data sources of information. As these sources, methods, and applications become more interdisciplinary, the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA) is an excellent forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and advances on how emerging research methods and sources are applied to different fields of social sciences as well as to discuss current and future challenges. Keywords: Big Data sources, Web scraping Social media mining, Official Statistics, Internet Econometrics, Digital transformation, global society. 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA2018)Universitat Politècnica de València, València, 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València I Preface Preface to CARMA2018This volume contains the selected papers of the Second International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018) hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain during 12 and 13 July 2018. This second edition consolidated CARMA as a unique forum where Economics and Social Sciences research meets Internet and Big Data. CARMA provided researchers and practitioners with an ideal environment to exchange ideas and advances on how Internet and Big Data sources and methods contribute to overcome challenges in Economics and Social Sciences, as well as on the changes in the society because of the digital transformation.The selection of the scientific program was directed by Maria Rosalia Vicente, who led an international team of 33 scientific committee members representing 28 institutions. Following the call for papers, the conference received 73 paper submissions from all around the globe. All submissions were reviewed by the scientific committee members under a double blind review process. Finally, 40 papers were accepted for oral presentation during the conference. This represents an overall paper acceptance rate of 54%, ensuring a high quality scientific program. It covers a wide range of research topics in Internet and Big Data, including nowcasting people mobility and economic indicators, applications of Big Data methods in retail and finance, using search and social media data, among others.CARMA 2018 also featured two special sessions on "Big Data for Central Banks" and "Using Big Data in Official Statistics," chaired by Juri Marcucci and Gian Luigi Mazzi, respectively. Both sessions gave a complementary institutional perspective on how to use Internet and Big Data sources and methods for public policy and official statistics. The perspective from the private sector was contributed by Norbert Wirth, who talked about "Data Science development at scale" in his keynote speech. Organizing Committee General chairJosep Domènech, Universitat Politècnica de València Scientific committee chairMaría Rosalía Vicente, Universidad ...

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Section: Towards a New Structural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018)

2018

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“…In total, the Obama campaign had 790 field offices across the United States, while the Romney campaign had 283 offices. During the 2008 election, the Obama campaign established over 700 field offices, while the McCain campaign established fewer than 400 offices (Masket 2009). …”

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Polls and Elections: Campaign Field Offices and Voter Mobilization in 2012

Weinschenk

2015

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During the last several presidential elections, much attention has been paid to campaign field offices. A number of analyses have investigated the impact of field offices on vote choice, but there have been very few investigations of whether and to what extent campaign field offices influence voter turnout. Using data from the 2012 election, I examine the impact of Obama and Romney field offices on county‐level turnout. I find that the presence of campaign field offices in counties across the United States increased turnout by a small amount. The results presented here add to the literature on campaign effects by showing that field offices—an increasingly important component of modern presidential campaigning—can influence levels of political engagement.

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“…Applied to the 2012 election, Brookes' Analyses of county-level voting trends then reveal larger shifts of support to the Democrats in counties where a field office was in operation than elsewhere, both boosting overall support for Obama and in three key states making the difference between defeat and victory (Masket, 2009 …”

Section: An Example: Brookes' Electoral Bias In the 2012 Presidentialmentioning

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“The electors shall meet in their respective states”: Bias and the US Presidential Electoral College, 1960–2012

Pattie

Johnston²

2014

Political Geography

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Abstract:American Presidential elections are indirect, reflecting popular support for the candidates through the institution of the Electoral College to choose the President. In common with other plurality-based electoral systems, the College tends to exaggerate the apparent mandate received by the winner of the popular vote but, on occasion, can deliver victory to the secondplaced candidate. Despite a sizeable literature on its operation and vagaries, however, relatively little attention has been paid to the question of systematic bias in the College: does one party receive a consistent advantage over the other from the College's operation? The paper examines the evidence for such a bias in each Presidential election since 1960.Although biases have occurred and in some cases were substantial, neither major party is a consistent beneficiary; the prime source of bias is to be found in the relative effectiveness of parties' own vote-winning strategies.

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Did Obama's Ground Game Matter?: The Influence of Local Field Offices During the 2008 Presidential Election

Cited by 35 publications

References 14 publications

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018)

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018)

Polls and Elections: Campaign Field Offices and Voter Mobilization in 2012

“The electors shall meet in their respective states”: Bias and the US Presidential Electoral College, 1960–2012

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