20 March, 2013

What Do Members of Congress Tweet About?

What Do Members of Congress Tweet About?:
As it turns out, it’s not always about hitting a deer with your car.  Here is a guest post from political scientist Heather Evans.

I led a group of researchers from Sam Houston State University that set out to figure out what members of the House and their competitors were tweeting about in the last two months of the 2012 election. In total, 67,119 tweets were coded for 1,119 individuals.....