Issue Discussion in the Georgia Senate Elections

Summary

The Georgia Senate runoff elections pose an interesting opportunity for voters — the chance to change the majority party in the chamber. Because of this interesting election, we wanted to examine several topics related to voter opinions.

First, we identify 473 Georgian voters from a random set of Twitter users whose tweets mention any of the four senate candidates, or use a hashtag associated with the election. After analyzing the nearly 10,000 tweets (all made after the 2020 general election), we find that voters were picking up on topics mentioned in attack ads and it was happening along partisan lines. We also find that voters don’t view this as a nationalized election.