Campaign Media

New examples of the growing speed and power of Twitter around the globe seemed to be furnished by events nearly every month now.

George Washington University professor John Sides is a leading academic voice on the Web on all things political.

Exit polls are surveys conducted as voters leave their polling place on Election Day. Reaching voters at that moment is important because it overcomes the problem pollsters have conducting telephone polls: people tend to misreport whether they voted or not. The “who won and why did they win” coverage on election night, of course, comes mainly from these exit poll results.