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Prof Matthew Baum’s Covid States Project Shows MA Residents Support COVID Restrictions

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The latest survey report out from the COVID States Project, co-authored by the Shorenstein Center’s Professor Matthew Baum, shows that Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly support policies to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, including business and school closures, cancelling public events, and restricting travel. Support for more restrictive measures to combat the pandemic comes from […]

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COVIDstates Polling on Battleground States

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click for full header graphic The delayed election results in key battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and subsequent shifts in vote margins as mail-in ballots are counted, was entirely predicted. The multi-university team of researchers behind the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States laid out their findings from October

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2020 Election research and resources

Shorenstein Center Election Research

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If you’re a journalist covering the 2020 election results, or anyone looking for more research-based context on the election-related landscape of media and information, the Shorenstein Center’s researchers and faculty have pulled together this list of recent reports, articles, and explainers. Resources and Research Collections Election Beat 2020: Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press

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The most important problem facing the country today

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum wanted to find out which issues are, or will be, on voters’ minds as they enter the voting booth on or beforeNovember 3rd. You can read the full report here. Perhaps

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Public opinion on government reaction to COVID-19

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum found found a remarkably consistent picture of public opinion: respondents prefer state governments over the federal government when it comes to COVID-19, with a notable partisan differences in perspective. You can

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Public health and Trump support

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum looked at the degree to which vote choice is associated with attitudes and behaviors regarding the pandemic, and whether the pandemic may be making voters who would otherwise be likely to

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COVID-19 fake news on Twitter

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum sought to answer the question of who is spreading misinformation on COVID-19. You can read the full report here. In this report, the team specifically examined the tweets of 1.6 million

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COVID-19 test result times have gotten faster, but cannot support broad contact tracing

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum looked the speed at which survey respondents received COVID-19 test results, and what that means for effective contact tracing. You can read the full report here. Despite a slight increase in

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Partisan differences in intention to vote by mail could delay election calls in key states

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The latest survey conducted by the multi-university COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, led in part by Shorenstein Center faculty Matthew Baum looked how likely survey respondents were to vote by absentee or mail-in ballot, and what that means in terms of when we will know the final results of the election. You

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Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Shorenstein Center’s Research Director Dr. Joan Donovan provides concrete recommendations for public health information officers and communication professionals drafting communication campaigns for health agencies and health organizations to maximize the chance that timely health advisories reach the public. You can read the full report here. Dr. Donovan makes five recommendations based on research conducted by the

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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