The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is providing support for the Electome project as part its efforts to advance excellence in journalism and increase civic engagement. To date, LSM’s “Horse Race of Ideas” deployments include:

“Trump’s unique followers command a larger share of the Twitter conversation,” in CNN Politics App, 8/12/16

“Look Who’s Talking: Whose followers tweet more about this election, Trump’s or Clinton’s?” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward, Uzra Khan and Soroush Vosoughi in Medium, 8/12/16

“Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter — Trump or Clinton?,” in CNN Politics App, 8/5/16

“Rude Awakening: Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter — Trump or Clinton?” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward and Uzra Khan in Medium, 8/5/16

“Clinton followers turn to national security,” in CNN Politics App, 7/29/16

“It’s national security, stupid.” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward and Uzra Khan in Medium, 7/29/16

“Twitter Talks Kaine,” by LSM’s Uzra Khan in Medium, 7/28/16

“The Top Issues for Trump and Clinton Supporters,” in CNN Politics App, 7/23/16

“2016 Election: Topical Storms. The Top Issues for Trump and Clinton Supporters,” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward and Uzra Khan in Medium, 7/22/16

“A Trump-Pence ‘chat-scan’. What’s Twitter saying about the ticket?” by LSM’s Uzra Khan in Medium, 7/20/16

“VEEPSTAKES, VISUALIZED,” by LSM’s William Powers and Soroush Vosoughi in Medium, 7/09/16

“How the Orlando attack showed the potential of an October Surprise,” Washington Post, 6/18/16

“Here’s evidence that Donald Trump has made us dumber as a country on immigration,” Fusion, 6/16/16

“Warning: This election contains language some people may find offensive,” Fusion, 5/25/16

“Missing From 2016 Race: Sense of Urgency Over U.S. Budget Gaps,” Bloomberg Politics, 5/2/16

“Just how uncivil is Election 2016? MIT’s Media Lab has some charts you should see.” PRI, 4/29/16

“Introducing ‘Tonar’ — An Incivility Index for Election 2016,” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward in Medium, 4/25/16

“Twitter users definitely see the Supreme Court vacancy as an election issue,” Washington Post, 3/20/16

“Twitter’s political debate focuses on much different issues than Americans at large do,” Washington Post, 3/13/16

“2016 Front-Runners Top List of Influencers on Social Media,” Wall Street Journal, 3/1/16

“Who’s Influencing Election 2016?” by LSM’s William Powers in Medium, 2/23/16

“Time to check your candidate’s ‘chat-scan,'” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward in Medium, 2/1/16

“Here’s how Twitter reacted to the Iowa Brown & Black Forum,” Fusion, 1/15/16

“Enter the Electome,” by LSM’s Andrew Heyward in Medium, 12/28/15

“The ever-changing issues of the 2016 campaign, as seen on Twitter,” Washington Post, 12/15/15

“Laboratory for Social Machines building an alternative to horse-race journalism,” by LSM’s William Powers in KnightBlog, 10/29/15