“We continue our discussion of data harvesting, targeted advertising, and voter manipulation — practices used by firms like Cambridge Analytica. The secretive data firm collapsed in May 2018 after The Observer newspaper revealed the company had harvested some 87 million Facebook profiles without the users’ knowledge or consent to sway voters to support Trump during…
“Across the country, local newspapers are printing fewer pages, less frequently — and sometimes collapsing entirely. Recent studies paint a grim picture of the decline in local newspapers and the impact it has on American politics. Jeffrey Brown reports and talks to Chuck Plunkett, formerly of the Denver Post, and the GroundTruth Project’s Charles Sennott…
“Young voters vs. old voters and the politics of age may define who the Democratic presidential nominee will be. A recent poll finds that young people and Baby Boomers are sharply divided on who should win the party’s nomination. Only 10 percent of people between 18 and 34 support Joe Biden while 39 percent of…
Voter turnout is low because voting is such a hassle. You’ve heard your relatives, your neighbors, friends say it. You’ve probably said it a few times. The whole voting process is just too much to go through. Registering, learning the names of the candidates, trying to make sense of those complicated issues about propositions and…
There are seventeen (17) 2018 Ballot Measures on my Absentee Ballot. Eleven (11) are State Measures, one (1) is a County Measure and five (5) are Long Beach Measures. Some of the 2018 State ballot measures are getting a lot of attention. Propositions 8 (Outpatient Kidney Dialysis Clinics) and 10 (Rent Control) have received the…
The Nonpartisan Offices are in my crosshairs today and I have my hands full. There are the judgeships as well as the Superintendent of Public Instruction, County Assessor, and County Sheriff. That’s a total of twenty-six nonpartisan offices. When I speak of the nonpartisan offices of judgeships, I’m talking the California Supreme Court (2 Associate…
PalacioMagazine.com has been working with the California State University, Long Beach Political Science class of Professor Som Chounlamountry to gather Voter Voices on Proposition 51. On November 8th, voters will speak. We wanted to hear their opinions ahead of the election. The students were asked to interview fellow students, family members, teachers or random people…
Voting is Easy. It’s finding Voter Information that’s hard. You know I’m right. Walking into a voting booth and darkening some circles or punching some holes or pulling a lever (more like touching a screen) is not rocket science. The problem is knowing what choices you’ll need to make. Now, the Presidential race is one…