Has anyone done a topical sentiment analysis over think tank scholar-pundits tweets over time?
I bet it would be as illuminating as @OpenSecretsDC in terms of who is funding what.
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Replying to @Aelkus
Hrm. When I worked at one, I did drink A LOT of Maker's Mark...
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I'm more interested in measuring the obviousness of "think tanks are just partisan rationalizers." I've been disappointed in a few since 2015 thinking, "they'll stand up to this!" then watching the flaccid response. But why would they -- they're donors love it.
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On social media, everyone from blue-checks to bots clearly use biased filtering. Everyone knows it, too. Like, it's part of the environment. So does mass media. So does everyone. But think tanks have branded well enough that the perception is more "they're ideologues."
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But, 2016- has made it as obvious as possible that they're *mostly* partisans using favored ideologues as rationalizations. Again, yes, of course that's how it works. I'd just like to show it in a comparative way, Issue Y reaction under X={dem,gop} control.
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