Premium
The 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary and Network News
Author(s) -
Farnsworth Stephen J.,
Lichter S. Robert
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.259
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 1555-5623
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2002.tb00635.x
Subject(s) - hostility , history , political science , media studies , psychology , sociology , social psychology
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. Negative network news evaluations of Patrick Buchanan actually led to improvements in his tracking poll standings in subsequent days, indicating strong hostility to national media perspectives among many New Hampshire Republicans sympathetic to Buchanan.