Tag: Democratic National Convention 2024

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Inside the 2024 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

The Democratic Party released its final 2024 platform on August 18. The next evening, delegates at the Democratic National Convention voted to approve the 92-page platform.

To make a statistical summary, this article carries out sentiment analysis of the platform. Keywords related to race, religion, sexual orientation and gender are analyzed in context, and each reference is scored (one, zero, or negative one) according to the sentiment, which may be positive, neutral, or negative. Keywords include “Latino,” “Black,” “Asian,” “White,” “Muslim,” “Christian,” “man,” “woman,” and “transgender.”  (more…)

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Joe Biden Quits the Race and Endorses Kamala Harris

In January I’d written about how I found myself “violently disinterested” in this year’s upcoming presidential election.

I’m still cynical about the idea that it matters who’s president when it seems obvious that the country is like a terminal patient waiting to die. In fact, I’m cynical about the idea that it ever mattered who’s president, when it seems obvious that bankers have always run the country. (more…)