Two university professors retract a paper that claimed the two former Comedy Central hosts may have affected the 2016 presidential outcome.
Fans of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart can relax: New statistical analysis has disproved the charge that they helped elect Donald Trump by leaving their shows when they did.
“By combining granular geographic ratings data with election results, we are able to isolate the shows’ effects on the election. For The Daily Show, we find a strong positive effect on Jon Stewart’s departure and Trump’s vote share,” Ethan Porter, assistant professor of media and public affairs at Georgetown University, and Thomas Wood, assistant professor of political science at Ohio State University, wrote in their initial paper, published in April in the journal Electoral Studies.
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