Popeyes took over in a single weekend, using a lot of the same tactics that were used to influence the 2016 election: clever social media posts, amplified and developed through sock-puppet accounts until enough people internalized the message to hit the tipping point.
The bitter pill for Democrats in evenly divided states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin is that their voters are clustered in urban areas while Republican voters are more spread out.
The chatter among journalists this week concerns Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University’s student-run news organization and the manner in which it covered a protest against an appearance by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
