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Voter ID Laws and Biased Information from Local Election Officials
What Do I Need to Vote? Bias in Information Provision by Local Election Officials Abstract The adoption of voter identification (ID) requirements has raised concerns that these laws differentially reduce turnout among minorities. We use a field experiment to investigate … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, discrimination, elections, government, local election administrators, voter ID, voting requirements
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Minority Turnout Determined the 2012 Election
Via Brookings Institution: “While it may seem like the 2012 presidential election has been analyzed to death, the recent release of the Census Bureau’s November election survey points out the key role that minority voter turnout, especially for blacks, played … Continue reading
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Tagged blacks, elections, government, Hispanics, Obama, race, Romney
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Republicans Moving to the Right More than Democrats Moving to the Left
A summary of a paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conference: “Party Fit Theory: A Candidate-Level Explanation for Partisan Polarization in Congress” by Danielle Thomsen “Some recent research has demonstrated that while our congressional parties have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, elections, government, ideology, polarization, politics, primaries, Republicans
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Money Corrupts the Political Process and What to Do About It
Regardless of political affiliation I believe we can agree money is corrupting our political process. In the 2012 election cycle .000042% or 132 Americans provided 60% of the SuperPAC contributions. Click on this powerful TED talk by Lawrence Lessig that … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Government, Inequality, Socio-economic Status, Wealth
Tagged citizens, corruption, democracy, elections, government, inequality, money, politics, republic, Super PACs, wealth
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Study: The Left and Right Just Don’t Understand White Working-Class Americans
If the following study’s findings are correct both left and right wing pundits are wrong! “Both the right and the left operate with stereotypes about white working-class Americans,” noted Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, which … Continue reading
Iowa GOP Member Moves Voter Suppression to a New Direction
Iowa state Rep. Pat Grassley (R) must be desperate to suppress the vote. Among other things his bill, House File 423, states, “The bill strikes requirements that high school students receive instruction in voting statutes and procedures, voter registration requirements, … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Government, Secondary Education
Tagged elections, government, high school, Pat Grassley, voter suppression, voting statutes
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A Profile of the Birthers
What’s the profile of a typical ‘birther’ – a person who doesn’t believe President Obama was born in the USA? To answer the question I downloaded the ‘2010-12 ANES Evaluations of Government and Society Study (EGSS1)’ dataset. I specified a … Continue reading
Study–The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting Abstract Does media bias affect voting? We analyze the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its impact on voting. Between October 1996 and November 2000, the conservative Fox News Channel … Continue reading
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Tagged cable, elections, Fox News, GOP, government, media bias, Republican, voting
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Summarizing 2012 in Charts
Steven Rattner provides a good summary of 2012 in charts. “In 2012, the slow recovery dominated both the economic news and the worries of most Americans, but the underlying components of the weak job market were not always fully dissected. In … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Elections, Government, Health, Income Distribution, Socio-economic Status, Taxes
Tagged Congress, debt ratios, deficits, elections, healthcare, income, income distribution, jobs, polarization, Social Security, top 1%
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Presidential Voting History by State: 1868-2008
This visualization is by Mike Moore. It depicts presidential voting history of US States from 1868 to 2008.
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Tagged blue state, elections, history, President, red state, state
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