Clinton is a liar, but Trump is racist: Reasons given for voter preferences.







A study done by the Raven’s Eye Research Team



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 4, 2015



Puyallup, WA--Raven’s Eye releases findings on perceptions of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.



From August 28 to September 1, 2015, Raven’s Eye recruited a nationally representative sample of 396 adults in the United States via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our study asked participants:



If elections for President of the United States of American were held today, and your choice was between the following two candidates, for which one would you cast your vote?

( ) Hillary Clinton ( ) Donald Trump



Over the course of a short paragraph, describe some of the main reasons why you would vote for the candidate you chose. Over the course of a short paragraph, describe some of the main reasons why you would NOT vote for the candidate that you DID NOT choose.

Overall, 57.3% of respondents reported they would vote for Hillary Clinton, while 42.7% identified Donald Trump to be their candidate of choice. The top two reasons reported for voting for Clinton were:



She has more experience.

She would be the first female president.

The top two reasons provided for voting for Trump were:



He is a successful businessman.

He will make America great again.



Those who voted for Clinton provided the following top two reasons for NOT voting for Donald Trump:



He has no experience in politics.

He is racist.

Those who voted for Trump, on the other hand, provided the following top two reasons for NOT voting for Hillary Clinton:



She is a liar.

She is too liberal.



“Raven’s Eye is proud to demonstrate our game-changing abilities with respect to understanding natural language expression,” said Britton Niles, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer for Raven’s Eye. “By using Big Data technologies, we are able to produce accurate themes in the very words of the participants themselves, and in a fraction of the time it would otherwise require. If this research piques your interest, just wait for what is coming next.”



More details about this study are available online at:





To direct questions or comments to the study’s primary investigators, please contact them at:



Britton Niles, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer







Tim Lower, PhD

Vice President and Director of Truth











Raven's Eye is an online natural language analysis software tool based on Quantitative Phenomenology, an innovative interdisciplinary scientific method. Raven's Eye provides its users with reliable, valid, and nearly instantaneous automated analyses of written English language.

