Political Stance Detection on X During the 2024U.S. Election: A Comparative Study of Classical, Neural, and Transformer Models
This paper presents a comparative study of classical, neural, and transformer models for political stance detection on X during the 2024 U.S. election, demonstrating that while fine-tuned BERTweet achieves the highest accuracy, carefully engineered classical models like linear SVMs offer a highly competitive, more efficient, and interpretable alternative for scalable deployment.