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The social political temperature of the country, measured through public YouTube conversations. Explore the Social Vibe Index, automatic 50-state positive-language balance, and positive versus negative language. Map shows balance of positive social media indicators between parties. This is not a vote or seat forecast.

Geography Period Source

Social signal weighting

Proposed research weights. These are design assumptions, not observed sentiment values or validated forecasting coefficients.

Observed social data

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No verified social observations have been loaded for this selection.

50-state Social Conversation Map

Map will load automatically when live data is available.

Blue shows the share of positive-language comments mentioning Democrats only; red shows the share mentioning Republicans only. Negative, mixed and neutral comments do not add to either color. These are rough keyword signals, not verified party approval, voting preferences or election predictions.

Democratic positive-language comments Republican positive-language comments Not sampled / insufficient positive signals

The map fills automatically. Click any state to inspect its results.

State names are YouTube search topics, not verified commenter locations. The map first samples all states, then reuses discovered videos and attempts to cache results for 30 days in the visitor’s browser (where storage is allowed). This is not a shared website-wide cache. This coverage-first edition caps each browser at 50 video searches and 350 comment-page requests per UTC day. One initial 50-state scan may use about 5,000 search units plus comment-page units. These caps cannot enforce a project-wide quota across visitors. Saved video IDs are reused for seven days. Gray indicates no data, errors or no qualifying positive-language comments mentioning only one party. The blue/red split measures the relative number of positive-language comments, not verified party approval.

Positive and negative language by party mention

Counts are based on the overall wording of comments that mention only one party. Positive or negative words elsewhere in a comment may not describe that party; mixed and neutral categories are shown separately.

Select a state and choose Explore selected state to see the language breakdown.

Videos sampled

Select a state and choose Explore selected state to see source videos.

What Vibecheck measures

Emotion and intensity, changes in conversation volume, topics gaining attention, engagement patterns, and how those measures evolve. State assignment requires reliable location evidence; mentioning a state does not establish that the author lives there.

VIBECHECK · A Matley Coaching research initiative. This embed uses browser-local video discovery and comment sampling when configured, subject to browser access, API quota and caching. It does not calculate congressional seat forecasts. The state map shows the relative counts of positive-language comments mentioning only one party in collected YouTube topic samples, not election predictions, winners, voter residence or verified party approval. Sentiment is a basic keyword-based exploratory metric. The party-specific panel separates positive, negative, mixed and neutral language in comments that mention exactly one party.