CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton entered the final phase of her campaign on Friday, working to ensure a victory that is decisive enough to earn a mandate for her presidency and a surge of voters to help Democrats win congressional races.
Emerging from a nine-day absence from the trail, Mrs. Clinton seized on the momentum of her performance in the final presidential debate, choosing Ohio — a battleground state where she has struggled the most against Donald J. Trump — as her first stop on a four-day swing. With new polls showing Mrs. Clinton closing in on Mr. Trump in the state, her campaign is glimpsing the opportunity for a clean sweep of traditional swing states.
Reminding voters of Mr. Trump’s refusal in Wednesday’s debate to say definitively he would accept the outcome on Election Day, Mrs. Clinton said that as secretary of state she had visited countries whose leaders jailed political opponents and invalidated elections they did not win. “We know in our country the difference between leadership and dictatorship,” she said.
What the millions who tuned in for the three presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton heard from the candidates may not have been music to their ears. But Hannah Davis finds music where others wouldn’t think to listen.
The computer programmer developed software several years ago that turns bodies of text into musical compositions based on their mood and emotion. She’s used it to make music out of novels that range from Alice in Wonderland” to “A Clockwork Orange” to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
She also portrayed herself as a the candidate who could attract independent, undecided and even Republican voters unhappy with Mr. Trump’s campaign. “I want to say something to people who may be reconsidering their support of my opponent,” she said. “I know you still may have questions for me, I respect that. I want to answer them. I want to earn your vote.”
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Her stop here marked the start of a rare multiday tour of swing states as the Clinton campaign revved up its efforts to decisively defeat Mr. Trump on Nov. 8, including releasing a powerful minute-long ad featuring Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq. The ad featuring Mr. Khan, who was attacked by Mr. Trump after he spoke at the Democratic convention, will run in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as well as other crucial states.
With Mrs. Clinton holding a healthy lead in most national polls, Democrats have turned their focus to trying to ensure victory by as large a margin as possible, deploying Michelle Obama in Arizona and President Obama in Florida. The larger the victory, the less Mr. Trump and his supporters can claim foul play, Mrs. Clinton’s allies said.
A month ago, Ohio seemed to be aligning as a Trump stronghold, as its large bloc of white working-class voters responded to Mr. Trump’s economic populism and America-first message. But the state is now back in play, with a poll from Suffolk University in Boston showing a tied race.
Now, Davis has trained the software, called TransProse, on the presidential debates — and found the contrast between Trump and Clinton transcends their politics. Because each candidate called upon distinctly different emotions during their debate performances, the resulting scores have divergent octaves, keys and tempos.
“The first debate was so hard to watch, and I thought it would be kind of interesting to see if I could hear the emotional undertones without having to listen to Trump interject and be abrasive,” said Davis, who plans to support Clinton on Nov. 8.
Before the choir cries partisanship, Davis said the analysis is done entirely by computer using word association databases, called the Word-Emotion Association Lexicon and the Activity Lexicon, from the National Research Council of Canada. Her software, as it was designed, does not have political leanings.
Listen to the audio for yourself and guess the candidate that matches each song.
Emerging from a nine-day absence from the trail, Mrs. Clinton seized on the momentum of her performance in the final presidential debate, choosing Ohio — a battleground state where she has struggled the most against Donald J. Trump — as her first stop on a four-day swing. With new polls showing Mrs. Clinton closing in on Mr. Trump in the state, her campaign is glimpsing the opportunity for a clean sweep of traditional swing states.
Reminding voters of Mr. Trump’s refusal in Wednesday’s debate to say definitively he would accept the outcome on Election Day, Mrs. Clinton said that as secretary of state she had visited countries whose leaders jailed political opponents and invalidated elections they did not win. “We know in our country the difference between leadership and dictatorship,” she said.
What the millions who tuned in for the three presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton heard from the candidates may not have been music to their ears. But Hannah Davis finds music where others wouldn’t think to listen.
The computer programmer developed software several years ago that turns bodies of text into musical compositions based on their mood and emotion. She’s used it to make music out of novels that range from Alice in Wonderland” to “A Clockwork Orange” to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
She also portrayed herself as a the candidate who could attract independent, undecided and even Republican voters unhappy with Mr. Trump’s campaign. “I want to say something to people who may be reconsidering their support of my opponent,” she said. “I know you still may have questions for me, I respect that. I want to answer them. I want to earn your vote.”
Continue reading the main story
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Continue reading the main story
Her stop here marked the start of a rare multiday tour of swing states as the Clinton campaign revved up its efforts to decisively defeat Mr. Trump on Nov. 8, including releasing a powerful minute-long ad featuring Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American soldier killed in Iraq. The ad featuring Mr. Khan, who was attacked by Mr. Trump after he spoke at the Democratic convention, will run in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as well as other crucial states.
With Mrs. Clinton holding a healthy lead in most national polls, Democrats have turned their focus to trying to ensure victory by as large a margin as possible, deploying Michelle Obama in Arizona and President Obama in Florida. The larger the victory, the less Mr. Trump and his supporters can claim foul play, Mrs. Clinton’s allies said.
A month ago, Ohio seemed to be aligning as a Trump stronghold, as its large bloc of white working-class voters responded to Mr. Trump’s economic populism and America-first message. But the state is now back in play, with a poll from Suffolk University in Boston showing a tied race.
Now, Davis has trained the software, called TransProse, on the presidential debates — and found the contrast between Trump and Clinton transcends their politics. Because each candidate called upon distinctly different emotions during their debate performances, the resulting scores have divergent octaves, keys and tempos.
“The first debate was so hard to watch, and I thought it would be kind of interesting to see if I could hear the emotional undertones without having to listen to Trump interject and be abrasive,” said Davis, who plans to support Clinton on Nov. 8.
Before the choir cries partisanship, Davis said the analysis is done entirely by computer using word association databases, called the Word-Emotion Association Lexicon and the Activity Lexicon, from the National Research Council of Canada. Her software, as it was designed, does not have political leanings.
Listen to the audio for yourself and guess the candidate that matches each song.
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