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COVID-19推文情绪在2020年美国选举年投票偏好方面的变化趋势

Shifting Trends of COVID-19 Tweet Sentiment with Respect to Voting Preferences in the 2020 Election Year of the United States

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga(田纳西大学查塔努加分校)

Megan Doman, Jacob Motley, Hong Qin, Mengjun Xie, Li Yang

摘要:

2020年美国大选年期间,COVID-19相关政策被广泛政治化,导致观点两极分化。Twitter用户在2020年选举年特别活跃。在这里,我们调查了在选举日之前的一段时间内,与COVID-19相关的推文是否与州一级的整体选举结果相关。我们观察到COVID-19相关推文的平均情绪与两周内的流行投票之间存在弱相关性,并且趋势逐渐相反。然后,我们比较了支持共和党(红色州)或民主党(蓝色州)的州之间与COVID-19相关的推文的平均情绪。我们发现,在封锁开始时,蓝色州的情绪比红色州的情绪要积极得多。然而,红州的情绪在2020年夏季逐渐变得更加积极,并持续到选举日。

英文摘要:

COVID-19 related policies were extensively politicized during the 2020 election year of the United States, resulting in polarizing viewpoints. Twitter users were particularly engaged during the 2020 election year. Here we investigated whether COVID-19 related tweets were associated with the overall election results at the state level during the period leading up to the election day. We observed weak correlations between the average sentiment of COVID-19 related tweets and popular votes in two-week intervals, and the trends gradually become opposite. We then compared the average sentiments of COVID-19 related tweets between states called in favor of Republican (red states) or Democratic parties (blue states). We found that at the beginning of lockdowns sentiments in the blue states were much more positive than those in the red states. However, sentiments in the red states gradually become more positive during the summer of 2020 and persisted until the election day.

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