Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @baseballot
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
241
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-09
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-18
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
9 years
Summarization
This conversation is about the accuracy of presidential polling two years prior to the election and whether or not doubting polls is responsible. FiveThirtyEight is criticized for giving fake pollsters an 'A' rating in its model, which is considered irresponsible by some. It is also discussed that Democrats typically register to vote later in their twenties than Republicans and this could be due to a shift in opinion or other factors. Additionally, the topic of a reform synagogue is brought up and it is mentioned that where the convention is held doesn't matter as much as who attends it. Finally, it is suggested that two successive voter files can be analyzed in order to come to more persuasive conclusions about age-period-cohort models.
Topic Modeling
- Presidential polling accuracy
- Poll denialism
- 538 grading polls
- Electional denialism
- Lower voter registration rates
Emotional Analysis
The tweets express a range of emotions, from amusement and sarcasm to concern and panic. The conversation revolves around the accuracy of presidential polling and the implications of poll denialism. There is also discussion about the effects of differential registration on voting trends, and some disbelief at the idea of casting doubt on polls. The overall tone is one of skepticism and debate, with some moments of lightheartedness.
Trend Analysis
- Presidential polling accuracy
- Poll denialism versus election denialism
- 538's grading system for pollsters
- 2012 voter file analysis
- Educational polarization impacting voting patterns
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
51
Percentage of total tweets
21%
Number of Original tweets
0
Percentage of total tweets
0%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
241
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
190
Percentage of total tweets
78%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
14
Percentage of total tweets
5%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
6
Percentage of total tweets
2%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter for iPhone | 96 |
| Twitter Web App | 80 |
| Twitter for Android | 56 |
| Twitter for iPad | 5 |
| TweetDeck | 4 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| FiveThirtyEight | FiveThirtyEight | Data-driven news and analysis from ABC News’s FiveThirtyEight | 1,307,045 |
| Nate_Cohn | Nate Cohn | chief political analyst, @nytimes. writing about elections, public opinion and demographics for @UpshotNYT. polling and needling. PNW expat. | 488,425 |
| bresreports | John Bresnahan | Co-Founder of Punchbowl News. Yankees fan forever. john @ https://t.co/yV4Kr3yM96 | 125,009 |
| gelliottmorris | G. Elliott Morris | Data Journalist + US Correspondent for @TheEconomist. Author of STRENGTH IN NUMBERS (https://t.co/c8nxYdnpks) & my newsletter on data & politics (https://t.co/PE6cfXDGQN) | 117,893 |
| ElectProject | Michael McDonald | Professor at the University of Florida who specializes in American elections. | 93,228 |
| davidshor | (((David Shor))) | Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research, based in NYC, originally from Miami. I try to elect Democrats. Views are my own. he/him🌹 | 74,598 |
| aedwardslevy | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Polling + election analytics editor @CNN; keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. LA native, formerly @HuffPost. I like puns. | 66,191 |
| aseitzwald | Alex Seitz-Wald | Senior Digital Politics Reporter for @NBCNews. | 62,911 |
| baseballot | Nathaniel Rakich | Sabermetric-minded politics writer, social-science-minded baseball writer. Elections @FiveThirtyEight. | 57,720 |
| lxeagle17 | Lakshya Jain | @cal alum; computer scientist/machine learning engineer; election analyst/modeler/partner @SplitTicket_. views my own. he/him | 33,745 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| VivaRevolt | VivaRevolt | Retweet≠endorsement,Poli Sci/IR Grad Student,History&Poli Sci Graduate,Updates on Syria,following Egypt,Kurdistan,Palestine,Libya,Iraq,Yemen,Sudan,Tunisia,US,Wx | 15,333 |
| xenocryptsite | Xenocrypt | Politics, math, etc. GitHub pages page: https://t.co/fBpQtqLvYl Medium: https://t.co/1gnQzJWJQ5Blogspot: https://t.co/ACCsP5BP6R@Xenocrypt@mas.to | 5,762 |
| rubyshooz8 | DEMOCRATS ARE CRUSHING MIDDLECLASS ON PURPOSE | #Gratitude #AllLivesMatter #UltraMAGA ♥️🤍🖤🇺🇸💙 | 5,114 |
| cincodejordan | Jordan Dodson | I am a all around popular guy! ♉️, #TeamLightSkin Instagram:jor_jor_94 #SWDHS Alumni Snapchat:@cincodejordan CashApp: $JQDods94 | 5,002 |
| TWLadyGrey | LadyGrey 🇦🇲🇺🇦 | Immigrant. Techie. Pro-Democracy Progressive. Tweeting about US politics, Armenia, authoritarianism, and random takes. | 5,001 |
| edmunds_dowling | Ryan Edmunds Dowling- #PSU #Feminist | I'm a PSU student for life and an Arizona Boy, Baseball is the best sport, I'll always love Arizona sports teams and I still love romantic walks on the beach | 4,981 |
| beardedcrank | The Bearded Crank 🗹 | Polls and Bing Crosby Christmas albums.Weds Nov 4th 2020 my bio changes to "Sherrod would've won"."Lawn signs don't vote" = blocked and reported. | 4,966 |
| CorruptedLiars | Elon Musk, Purveyor of Conspiracy and Hate Speech | Equal justice and rights for all, or peace for none. | 4,531 |
| bresreports | John Bresnahan | Co-Founder of Punchbowl News. Yankees fan forever. john @ https://t.co/yV4Kr3yM96 | 4,336 |
| mikegehrke | Mike Gehrke | Even though I have a wealth of my own opinions, I am still willing to tell you what I think of yours. You're welcome. mikegehrke@mastodon.social | 4,327 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| xenocryptsite | Politics, math, etc. GitHub pages page: https://t.co/fBpQtqLvYl Medium: https://t.co/1gnQzJWJQ5Blogspot: https://t.co/ACCsP5BP6R@Xenocrypt@mas.to | 14 |
| davidshor | Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research, based in NYC, originally from Miami. I try to elect Democrats. Views are my own. he/him🌹 | 12 |
| Nate_Cohn | chief political analyst, @nytimes. writing about elections, public opinion and demographics for @UpshotNYT. polling and needling. PNW expat. | 11 |
| PoliticalKiwi | No poor people in a rich country.Likes politics and maths.he/him | 6 |
| Polit_eurOpines | proud red white and blue Democrat for the downtrodden and forgottenUndeterred I continued postingco/they/he Politics | Maps: @Polit_eur | 5 |
| starling_ren | - | 4 |
| NickRiccardi | AP western political writer. Father, hiker, pizza snob, Mets fan. RTs confirm your darkest suspicions. NRiccardi(at)APdotorg. DM for Signal, WhatsApp | 3 |
| beardedcrank | Polls and Bing Crosby Christmas albums.Weds Nov 4th 2020 my bio changes to "Sherrod would've won"."Lawn signs don't vote" = blocked and reported. | 3 |
| N_J____ | - | 3 |
| EricssenWen | *Elections Research Analyst @Meta *Singapore Correspondent @kompascom | 3 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1626394904141381634 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI My other rant about age is that everyone implicitly assumes these age-period-cohort models that don’t actually fit the data very well. What’s happened since 2012 is that education polarization folks who were 18 in 2012 more liberal and people who were 65 more conservative. | 3 |
| 1626388888812982272 | @ChrisatPTS @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @davidshor @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI It’s the truth. Maps + making stuff up gets a lot of RTs tho | 2 |
| 1626418327047512067 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI The “2016 was 1968” analogy keeps on winning | 2 |
| 1626392760457781248 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI Fwiw if you do two way party reg by age you get a pretty similar plummeting in the lower 20’s going back to 2012, which is when I first noticed it and panicked. | 2 |
| 1626385028576935936 | @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @davidshor @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI and this is a national phenomenon, btw. we’ve been sitting on this for a while, pending a little more survey data | 2 |
| 1624071970601029634 | @baseballot Does the sight of a national convention make any difference to voters at all? It’s basically a TV event. I can’t see really many voters at all being swung one way or another? | 1 |
| 1626394179017515008 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI Just to expand on that last point - you’re talking about a group with literally the lowest possible response rate and where you tautologically don’t have anything to post-stratify on. | 1 |
| 1626393432053927936 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI Some of it is differential registration- Democrats register to vote later in their 20’s than Republicans do, some is I’s becoming more D maybe, some is probably real shift.But who knows how it all actually evens out - like, how much can you really trust surveys of young Indys? | 1 |
| 1624075375457275910 | @baseballot Gonna be brutally honest for a moment: other than the people who will physically attend it, no one cares where the convention is held. | 1 |
| 1626384520948682754 | @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @davidshor @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI congrats on being the first person on election Twitter to discover the voter file | 1 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1623889502295949315 | @baseballot Is it your view that presidential polling is accurate two years out? | 43 |
| 1623878288702685184 | @baseballot irresponsible? poll denialism is not the same as election denialism, and certainly not the type of thing that can cause an insurrection or coup | 41 |
| 1623875510261669889 | @baseballot Lol ok bud | 34 |
| 1623879852167413760 | @baseballot Lmao. Saying that pollings sucks isn’t irresponsible. FiveThirtyEight giving literal fake pollsters an A rating on its model is irresponsible. | 32 |
| 1623875605870571527 | @baseballot Are you gonna cry? | 31 |
| 1626392760457781248 | @Nate_Cohn @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI Fwiw if you do two way party reg by age you get a pretty similar plummeting in the lower 20’s going back to 2012, which is when I first noticed it and panicked. | 25 |
| 1623891418417623041 | @baseballot i think i get the sarcasm, i get that 538 has had multiple pieces on electional denialism it is just that to use the word "irresponsible" to describe casting doubt on polls is kinda wild, especially when that word is commonly used to describe things that actually affect people | 24 |
| 1626384520948682754 | @PoliticalKiwi @iabvek @spinons @BirdAppKJ @xenocryptsite @davidshor @lxeagle17 @baseballot @Jamie_from_PI congrats on being the first person on election Twitter to discover the voter file | 24 |
| 1625938039536029700 | @baseballot This looks like a reform synagogue | 21 |
| 1624891756016812033 | @baseballot https://t.co/YncFQxAjsa | 20 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #hi01 | 1 |
| #hi02 | 1 |
| #18 | 1 |
| #jvteam | 1 |
| #simpsonsdidit | 1 |
| #sotu | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @baseballot | 241 |
| @iabvek | 67 |
| @spinons | 67 |
| @birdappkj | 67 |
| @jamie_from_pi | 67 |
| @lxeagle17 | 66 |
| @xenocryptsite | 64 |
| @politicalkiwi | 61 |
| @nate_cohn | 56 |
| @davidshor | 56 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
3
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 🤷♂️ | 2 | man_shrugging |
| 🇺🇸 | 1 | United_States |
| ☠️ | 1 | skull_and_crossbones |
| 🔥 | 1 | fire |
| 🤷♀️ | 1 | woman_shrugging |
| 😂 | 1 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| 💪🏾 | 1 | flexed_biceps_medium-dark_skin_tone |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| People & Body | 4 |
| Smileys & Emotion | 2 |
| Flags | 1 |
| Travel & Places | 1 |