David Kaufer – The Conversation

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley greets supporters on Jan. 3, 2024, at a bar in Londonderry, N.H. Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

January 18, 2024

Women presidential candidates like Nikki Haley are more likely to change their positions to reach voters − but this doesn’t necessarily pay off

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland and David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon University

Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where. But this tactic has a flip side, prompting criticism of her as inconsistent.

After his assassination, Abraham Lincoln became a beacon of the United States presidency. Bethany Moslen/shutterstock.com

July 3, 2017

Why Abraham Lincoln is an icon for Republicans and Democrats alike

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland and David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon University

Even Donald Trump has paid his respects to Lincoln as an emblem of unity.

Why do voters think Clinton is hiding something? AP Photo/David Goldman

October 31, 2016

Why do so many believe Hillary Clinton is inauthentic?

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland and David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon University

There’s more than one reason, according to two professors who have studied 25 years of Clinton’s public life.

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