anons, know where can I find a dataset for the 2020 election?
Here's what "October Surprise" means…
I was researching MIT Data about elections and they posted this…
"The rise in voting by mail (VBM) raises a number of important academic and policy issues. Do liberal vote-by-mail policies increase turnout? Does an increased rate of voting by mail decrease civic engagement, or decrease the impact of an “October surprise,” that is an event at the end of a political campaign intended to affect the outcome?"
https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voting-mail-and-absentee-voting
>that is an event at the end of a political campaign
What was the event at the end of Trump's political campaign of 2020?
The laptop from Hell?
Did the increased rate of voting by mail decrease the impact ot the laptop from Hell (aka the "October Surprise")?
That is the MIT Question here
There were 23 "October Surprises" in the 2016 Election
"In years past, presidential campaigns typically only had to worry about a single so-called “October surprise” with enough firepower to potentially knock them off the the path to 270 electoral votes – George W. Bush’s secret DUI arrest and Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video, for instance. But this year, instead of a landmine hidden somewhere in those 31 days, we’ve essentially had an advent calendar: a new October surprise for almost every day of the month."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-the-23-october-surprises-of-the-2016-election-191857/