NYTIMES ELECTION 2014 HOW TO
NYTIMES ELECTION 2014 PLUS

NYTIMES ELECTION 2014 PLUS

Links to current political news and analyses, plus

Election maps (Won't be available till after the election.

Self-perpetuating clusters of the like-minded lead voters and their representatives away from the center. These tendencies are intensifying and have spilled over to Congressional elections, leading to legislative paralysis. Polarization has intensified as voters in over half the nation's counties cast landslide margins for one presidential candidate or the other. Tom Edsall, How Fragile Is the New Democratic Coalition? Democratic strength is now concentrated in fewer but more heavily populated areas. The South is the fastest-growing region of the country, and Democrats are hoping that a flood of Northern expats and demographic change will allow them to turn red states to blue at a fast enough pace to counter the region’s growing share of the Electoral College.The Southern-born share of Southern residents has declined, but the pace of change is uneven across the region. In Florida, people born outside the South represent a majority of the population, but in low-growth and more rural states like Mississippi and Louisiana, 90 percent of the population remains Southern-born.

Upshot, Changing South Is at Intersection of Demographics and Politics. American politics have become much more polarized in recent years. Political Polarization in the American Public. 'Today there are fewer competitive counties in presidential elections.' (dark = closer races) Democrats would have to stop gravitating to cities! Related to, but not the same as, gerrymandering. Democrats have been winning states with massive majorities in just a few (urban/suburban) House districts, leaving Republicans to win the majority of (exurban/rural) House seats by smaller margins. Important analysis shows the importance of districts: House vs. This will help the GOP in the election, even tho they remain unpopular. Obama's ratings are slipping further, incl now in foreign policy & terrorism, where they had been fairly good. Obama Faulted in Terror Fight, New Poll Finds. And even those Millennials who do identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP are decidedly less conservative than older Republicans. The Republican Party's struggles in appealing to young people have been well documented. Wide Ideological Divide by Generation, Particularly Stark Within the GOP. Congressional Republicans successfully ended their primary season with minimal damage, but in at least a dozen safe or largely safe Republican House districts where more mild-mannered Republicans are exiting, their likely replacements will pull the party to the right, a move likely to increase division in an already polarized Congress. (If some of them don't open from these links, Highlights from the Facebook page: Polit Soc. Polls giving us accurate readings of voter preferences The campaigns maneuver to bring 'their' issues Percentage of each group actually votes: what's theirĬampaign's 'ground game' of getting out theĭo the different issues play? Which issue helps whichĬandidate, which social groups respond to which issues, Party loyalists, etc., etc.)? Plus how big is each Support (age, gender, religion, race, region, In my 'Political Sociology' class: As you read this material, That Synthesize Polling & Predict Electoral College If you find one, pls let me know!)Īrticles in the Press: Highlights from the FB page (Note: Some of the sections have materials carried over from previous elections and given how the web works, there could be dead links.

The present page will have mostly links to information sources (polling sites, news analysis sites, methods sites) and some links from past elections that are still informative.

NYTIMES ELECTION 2014 HOW TO

(And if you know how to run Facebook pages, I'm always happy for advice on how to do it better!) You can subscribe to it, 'like' it, or 'friend' it, and then you'll see new stories on your own Facebook newsfeed. This will be easier for me than editing the html on this page, and it will let you click through to links that may otherwise be restricted. I'm putting most of the election articles on a Facebook page: Polit Soc.

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