-
Media Trends on the Return to In-Person Learning
As schools across the country near the end of their first full semester back, it is easy to forget the public debate over the return to in-person learning that occurred at the beginning of the year. The return to classrooms was a dominant topic within the broader COVID-19 recovery discussion and encompassed a variety of subthemes, ranging from the debate over mandates and public safety to union influence and curriculum reform. The FTP Insights team conducted a…
-
Trending: Social Media Shifts of the 2021 VA Governors Race
The Virginia gubernatorial election between the former Carlyle CEO Glenn Youngkin and the former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe was one of the most high-profile elections of the 2021 cycle. On November 2nd, the former won the Governor’s Mansion by over two points in a state that President Biden had won by 10 points just a…
-
Eighteen Months Later: The State of COVID-19
Forbes Tate Partners (FTP) recently hosted a virtual conversation featuring policy and insights experts and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Chief Medical Advisor, Anand Parekh. The discussion focused on the COVID-19 conversation on social media, policy trends in the states, and the federal response to the current pandemic and how policymakers are preparing the nation for…
-
Employment Trends Media and Social Media Analysis: A Look into the Evolving Conversations Inside and Outside the Beltway
As Americans go back to work after more than a year of layoffs and remote work, our team examined the conversation on Twitter around employment and its connection to traditional media coverage of the topic. We analyzed over 1.6 million Twitter posts and 16,000 news stories since January 2020. Through our analysis, we discovered changing…
-
Exploring the COVID-19 Vaccination Landscape with Consumer Intelligence
As the U.S. and world continue with COVID-19 vaccination distribution, we took a look at the conversation around vaccines on Twitter and its connection to other trends we are seeing in public polling and vaccination rates. Our team analyzed a pool of over 18 million posts from 4 million authors over the past year. Through…
-
Grassroots Campaigning and Voter Turnout: Georgia By The Numbers
In the January federal runoff election in Georgia, voter turnout skyrocketed. While 57 percent of Georgia’s 2008 general election voters turned out for that year’s election runoffs, 91 percent of Georgia’s 2020 general election voters turned out for the most recent runoffs. This begs the question: what mobilized so many more individuals to vote this…
-
Inauguration 2021: Tweets from Inside the Beltway
As the country observed the inauguration of President Biden on January 20, we tuned in to the conversation among Beltway insiders on Twitter. We looked to see what members of Congress and their professional staff had to say about the inauguration and what themes were most closely tied to the conversation. We uncovered some promising…
