{"id":3976,"date":"2020-12-09T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:49:48","slug":"study-trumps-tweets-can-lead-republicans-to-lose-faith-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3976","title":{"rendered":"Study: Trump\u2019s tweets can lead Republicans to lose faith in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;President Donald Trump\u2019s tweets attacking the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election might not sway the outcome \u2014 but they might sway Americans\u2019 faith in democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/documents\/democratic-norms.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study by political science researchers<\/a>from Stanford and five other universities found that exposure to those tweets \u201cerodes trust and confidence in elections and increases the belief that elections are rigged among his supporters.\u201d However, among those who oppose the president, the study found that their trust in elections actually increased after seeing his tweets, albeit by a slightly smaller magnitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;people\u2019s self-reported views may have less to do with their actual opinions and more to do with staying in line with their party.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csdi\/events\/MPrior.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Previous<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w19080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research<\/a>&nbsp;has shown that survey respondents often follow partisan cues: Politico, for instance, found that Republicans\u2019 and Democrats\u2019 views on whether the economy was improving&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/08\/27\/trump-economy-partisan-influence-consumer-confidence-219602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flipped after Trump\u2019s 2016 win<\/a>, but that those shifts in reported attitudes only sometimes affected people\u2019s actual behavior.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/11\/21558781\/trump-tweet-election-rigged-republicans-violence-results-joe-biden-voting\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/11\/21558781\/trump-tweet-election-rigged-republicans-violence-results-joe-biden-voting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;President Donald Trump\u2019s tweets attacking the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election might not sway the outcome \u2014 but they might sway Americans\u2019 faith in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>A study by political science researchers from Stanford and five other universities found that exposure to those tweets \u201cerodes trust and confidence in elections and increases the belief that elections are rigged among his supporters.\u201d However, among those who oppose the president, the study found that their trust in elections actually increased after seeing his tweets, albeit by a slightly smaller magnitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;people\u2019s self-reported views may have less to do with their actual opinions and more to do with staying in line with their party. Previous research has shown that survey respondents often follow partisan cues: Politico, for instance, found that Republicans\u2019 and Democrats\u2019 views on whether the economy was improving flipped after Trump\u2019s 2016 win, but that those shifts in reported attitudes only sometimes affected people\u2019s actual behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[864,431,221,170,661],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}