Communication and Midterm Elections: Media, Message, and Mobilization

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Media, Message, and Mobilization: Political Communication in the 2014 Election Campaigns....Pages 3-23
The Cult(ure) of Analytics in 2014....Pages 25-42
The “Documented Voter”: Voter Id Messaging in the 2014 Texas Midterm Election....Pages 43-56
Commonsense Protections or Government Interference in Private Decisions? Competing Media Frames in the Battle Over Tennessee’s Abortion Amendment....Pages 57-81
Political Communication and Affective Polarization in the 2014 Midterm Elections for the US Senate: The Cases of Iowa, North Carolina, and Georgia....Pages 83-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
The 2014 Midterm Elections on Local Television: Frames, Sources, and Valence....Pages 101-114
Visual Framing of 2014 US Senate Campaign: Conflict Bias in News Coverage....Pages 115-130
The Serious Business of Late-Night Political Humor: Foreign Policy Issue Salience in the 2014 Midterm Elections....Pages 131-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Influence of Twitter Posts on Candidate Credibility: The 2014 Michigan Midterms....Pages 145-167
Picturing the Senate Candidates: Image Building in the Twitterverse....Pages 169-190
Personalization and Gender: 2014 Gubernatorial Candidates on Social Media....Pages 191-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Campaign Advertising in Florida’s 2014 Gubernatorial Election: Candidate Images, Voter Enthusiasm, and Partisanship....Pages 209-224
Midterm Voters: An Investigation of the Heuristic Systematic Processing Model and Political Advertisements....Pages 225-239
Blue Governors in Red States and Red Governors in Blue States....Pages 241-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-290