What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate​: An Analysis of the Tweets from Losers in the 2018 Midterm Elections

• In Event: Congress and Twitter: Issues and Negativity

Brief Overview

We examine the presence of anxiety in the Twitter posts issued by 2018 congressional candidates, relying on Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC) to estimate the amount of anxious language candidates used.

Authors

• Heather Kristen Evans, University of Virginia’s College at Wise

• Bryan T. Gervais, The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky