- These theories that have
existed for a long time
really seem to be coming to the fore
in this election cycle,
and so you really have
people protesting the candidates,
you have people clearly
alienated from the nominees
of the political parties on both sides.
And so you have Bernie Sanders people
who will be protesting in Philadelphia,
and you have Republicans at Cleveland
who will be protesting
the convention as well.
So you have party activists or activists
in the political system
who clearly are alienated
from the political parties.
But you also have activists who have been
around for a long time who
really represent a party
who are also likely to be there.
One of the most interesting things is just
there's going to be a lot
of protest on the streets
in this election cycle.
Our first job is really
to identify the protest
that's gonna be happening those days
and where they are likely to be,
and then we will distribute
teams throughout the cities
to those various protests.
It's a little bit, it has to
be a little bit on the fly,
because even though we know
what protests have permits,
there are unpermitted
protests quite often.
And we also can't really judge
size until really day of.
And so really, what will
happen is we will go to
a protest, we'll judge
the size, we'll figure out
how many teams we need
to really adequately
cover that protest, and
then we will move on
and look at other protests as well
and try and cover everything
that's going on in the city.
The process has been used quite a lot
to study protest in Europe.
There have been people who have
studied conventions before,
but they haven't used
quite the same methodology.
We think we can get some
basic demographic data,
for example, the protestors
pretty much day of,
because the surveyors will
be putting the information
into their smartphones,
goes up to the cloud,
and comes out in a nice data set
that political scientists like to analyze.
