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Unrepresentative Information: The Case of Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance

Published on June 6, 2005
by Stephen Ansolabehere, Erik C. Snowberg, and James M. Snyder, Jr.

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Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 2005

This paper examines evidence of sampling or statistical bias in newspaper reporting on campaign finance. [Authors] compile all stories from the five largest circulation newspapers in the United States that mention a dollar amount for campaign expenditures, contributions, or receipts from 1996 to 2000. [They] compare these figures to those recorded by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).