Abstract
This 485-newspaper study investigated the substantive differences in the media agenda in reports of the 2012 Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’), as represented by newspaper front page articles, with emphasis on differences in coverage between red and blue states. Newspapers in blue states used positive headlines more often and negative headlines less than did newspapers in red states.
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