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(9,111 posts)Basically just rewarded someone for yelling into the echo chamber.
You'd think efficacy would count when handing out these things.
https://www.thewrap.com/lincoln-project-ads-priorities-usa-experiment/
Despite the attention and likes The Lincoln Projects attack ads against Donald Trump received on social media, it turns out they didnt do much at all to persuade battleground voters to support Joe Biden, according to a study by a top Democratic Super PAC.
As the Daily Beast reported on Wednesday, Priorities USA conducted an experiment to look at the effectiveness of five of the Lincoln Projects ads during the most recent election cycle. A control group saw no ad at all, while five other treatment groups each with 683 respondents were shown one of the five Lincoln Project ads. After, the respondents were asked questions designed to measure how likely they were to vote and who they would vote for in the presidential election.
The Democratic Super PAC found that the more popular an ad was on Twitter, measured through likes and retweets, the less likely it was to persuade a battleground voter to vote for Biden over Trump, according to the Daily Beast. The most viral ad on Twitter that experiment included, which had over 116,000 retweets and more than 210,000 likes, performed the worst when it came to persuading voters.
Basically, they marketed to people who already agreed with them. So Democrats love them. No one much else. Our side is basically praising them for telling us what we wanted to hear.
Big meh.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Sympthsical
(9,111 posts)I'm quoting a Democratic pollster who provided their data and specifically studied the Lincoln Project.
You're just quoting election percentages without providing any evidence that TLP was effective.
No one's surprised Trump lost voters this go around. The man spent four years being awful with a tanked economy and an unmanaged pandemic. Of course he lost people. That isn't the assertion here. You're literally not addressing any part of my post.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Read the Pew polling. A number of republicans voted for Biden which made up a significant percentage of Joes margin of victory
Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)Thats right up there with Used Car Salesman of the Year.