Abstract: This paper aims to explore two compet ing data science meth odologies to attempt answer ing th e question, " Which issues contributed most to voters' choice in the 2024 presidential election? " The methodologies involve novel empirical evidence driven by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques . By using two distinct methods based on natural language processing and clustering analysis to mine over eight thousand user comments on election - related YouTube videos from one right leaning journal, Wall Street Journal, and one left leaning journal, New York Times, during pre - election week, we quantify the frequency of selected issue areas among user comments to infer which issues were most salient to potential voters in the seven days preceding the November 5th election. Empirically, we primarily demonstrate that immigration and democracy were the most frequently and consistently invoked issues in user comments on the analyzed YouTube videos, followed by the issue of identity politics, while inflation was significantly less frequently referenced. These results corroborate certain findings of post - election surveys but also refute the supposed importance of inflation as an election issue. This indicate s that variations on opinion mining, with their analysis of raw user data online, ca n be more revealing than polling and surveys for analyzing election outcomes. Keywords: artificial intelligence; opinion mining; clustering; vot e choice; cleavages 1. Introduction The Democrats lost both houses of Congress and the Presidency to Republicans in the 2024 election, with former president Donald Trump winning all seven swing states and the national popular vote, despite most pre - election polls giving Vice President Kamala Harris and President Trump a roughly equal chance of winning . Most post - election punditry and analysis in the legacy press and alternative media has attributed the Democrats' large loss to two main issues - inflation [59] and immigration [30] However, a growing contingent of analysts has also attributed the election outcome to the Democratic party's association with cultural issues purportedly distant from the median voter's preferences, such as th ose alternatively aggregated under the concept of "identity" or " woke " politics [54, 56] . To this point, three post - election studies illustrate how voters associated Democrats with left - of - center ideas that were ostensibly distant from most voters' priorities. S urvey research from the think tank Third Way demonstrates that Democrats, and thus Kamala Harris, were largely perceived as "too liberal" [15], while a study from More In Common polling over 5, 000 Americans concluded that while inflation was the top concern for every major demographic group across both parties, Americans misperceived LGBT/transgender policies as the top policy priority for Democrats [37] .

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., emphasized the possibility that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the "first woman President of the United States" during a late-night appearance with Stephen Colbert. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., predicted that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the "first woman President of the United States" during a late-night appearance on Thursday, conspicuously leaning into identity politics. Following the end of the Democratic National Convention, the progressive lawmaker went on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and played up how remarkable it is that Harris could become president. We will have the first woman President of the United States in November," Ocasio-Cortez predicted to raucous applause. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., predicts that Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first woman president. Playing up the drama in her declaration, the congresswoman talked about how she grew up only seeing depictions of female leadership in episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager" that she watched with her dad as a kid. But now that Harris has been nominated, that fantasy is one step closer to reality. "My dad felt it very important for me to watch this because he wanted me to see an example of a woman in leadership, and when I was a kid the only example of that was in science fiction." She continued, "And today represents a day where it has become our reality." The late-night show audience went wild at the prospect. She also had a welcome interviewer in Colbert, a rabid Democratic supporter who even moderated a fundraiser for President Biden before he was forced off the 2024 ticket. Colbert then asked the lawmaker about her statements earlier this year warning that the Democratic Party will not unite behind Harris if President Biden steps aside. Reading her quote, he said, "'If you think that there is a consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Harris, you will be mistaken." The host then asked her, "Have you ever been happier to be wrong?" She replied, repeating the word, "Ecstatic" several times. CNN'S DANA BASH ARGUES DNC APPEALS TO MEN WHO ARE NOT SO'TESTOSTERONE-LADEN' Colbert continued, "You didn't think this would necessarily happen?" to which she said, "No, and I think it is important that this was not predestined, this was not predetermined." "Vice President Harris earned this nomination through her grit, her politics, through every bit of hard work.

Parents not enforcing boundaries and being unwilling to chastise children has led to a generation of'infantilised millennials', according to a sociology professor. In his book, Why Borders Matter, Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, says a lack of clear boundaries has created a childlike generation. Not chastising children or using moral-based judgements'deprives them of a natural process' of fighting against parental rules and boundaries, says Furedi. He says children develop by reacting against boundaries given to them by parents and society, and over three or four generations those parameters have weakened. This has led to millennials in their twenties acting the way they did in their teenage years and refusing to embrace adulthood, he explained in his book.

There is a little known philosophy called Sentientism that is well founded in reality, provides a strong basis for compassionate ethics and will eventually become our predominant way of thinking. It commits to using evidence and reason and grants moral consideration to all sentient beings. This philosophy also gives us the best chance to solve the world's problems. Most people disagree with it. Let's go on a philosophical journey We start with using evidence and reason as the basis of our beliefs -- because reality is all there is.

There is a little known philosophical position that, for me at least, is well founded in reality, provides a strong basis for compassionate ethics and will eventually become humanity's predominant way of thinking. Most people disagree with it and with me. Sentientism is an ethical philosophy that applies evidence and reason and grants moral consideration to all sentient beings. Sentient beings have sentience -- the capacity to experience -- both suffering and flourishing. Things that can't experience might be important in other ways, but they don't need our moral consideration.

Even as social and political scientists struggle to understand the impact of the internet and the social media platforms it has spawned on human societies around the world, a vast new communication revolution is about to burst on humanity within five to 10 years. This upcoming revolution will surpass in its impact on Homo sapiens all revolutions in human communications except perhaps the very first revolution, which was the evolution of verbal communication among our earliest ancestors. This barely acknowledged revolution, which is likely to change the entire course of human history in a few short decades, is the rise of Artificial Intelligence-enabled, fully fluent live audio translation of conversations between humans of all ethnicities. We are not just talking about the literal translation of English or French into Russian or Chinese, but the translation of the subtle meanings wrapped in cultural allegories that even fluent but non-native speakers of a language often miss. This means that armed with nothing more than an Artificial Intelligence, or AI, audio translation app on a mobile phone, an American tourist could enter a farmer's market in Turkey or Germany and, not only haggle over prices, but laugh and joke with a local fruit seller as if he was Turkish or German. Wait another decade and he will be able to do the same thing in China.