Then Presidential Candidate Toxic Orange, during his political campaign for president, promoted xenophobic and racist ideology by stating that all immigrants crossing the US imaginary border without inspection were rapists drug dealers. The vitriolic speech vivid language used to demonize dehumanize individuals seeking a better life contribute economy, found acceptance support in significant po...

Presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial elections all require state-level polling, but continuous real-time polling of every state during a campaign remains prohibitively expensive, and quite neglected for less competitive states. This paper employs a new dataset of over 500GB of politics-related Tweets from the final months of the 2012 presidential campaign to interpolate and predict state...

Standard arguments that usually draw on the premises, which are taken for granted and adequate to accept end, called topoi. This strategy is closely associated with process of rejecting immigration by American politicians. politicians use topoi extensively criticize each other one hand convince public opinion audience their opinions hand. In particular, former US President Donald Trump employed...

As the days pass, preparations continue to establish the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. America's tenth Presidential Library is in its early period of formation. In Fall 2000 a former auto dealership's building, with 30,000 thousand square feet of space and plans for adding another 20,000 square feet, in Little Rock, Arkansas began as the home for the t...

Although psychopathic personality (psychopathy) is marked largely by maladaptive traits (e.g., poor impulse control, lack of guilt), some authors have conjectured that some features of this condition (e.g., fearlessness, interpersonal dominance) are adaptive in certain occupations, including leadership positions. We tested this hypothesis in the 42 U.S. presidents up to and including George W. ...

Twitter is a popular real-time microblogging service that allows its users to share short pieces of information known as “tweets” (limited to 140 characters). Users write tweets to express their opinions about various topics pertaining to their daily lives. With a total 175 million users and 95 million tweets published per day (as of September 2010), Twitter serves as an ideal platform for the ...

The “miracle of aggregation” has become the key to understanding how an uninterested and uninformed electorate can produce systematic and responsive presidential approval. This paper, however, presents a set of theoretical considerations, which predict that not only do the least informed contribute to aggregate measures of presidential approval, but that the most and least informed update their...

Typically at Penn State University, Honors English Composition (30) is offered fall semester as a pre-requisite for Honors Speech Communication 100, offered in the spring. This arrangement may reflect the intellectual shifts within these disciplines, implicitly signifying the distance that has grown ~etween them and casting in relief the question of who "owns" rhetoric. In developing our course...