As the name indicates, these are the states that switch between voting Republican and Democrat, because their population is fairly evenly split in support of the two parties. Millions of dollars are poured into campaigning in swing states as winning the additional college votes can be crucial. In...
Here's how the Electoral College works, as well as details on its history and what role individual voters play in the outcome of the presidential election. What is the Electoral College and how does it work? The Electoral College is the process by which Americans elect their president and vi...
Does class-based campaigning work? how working class appeals attract and polarize votersdoi:10.1177/0010414020957684Joshua RobisonRune StubagerMads ThauJames TilleySAGE Publications
the U.S. The Government Accountability Office said the OMB’s withholding of obligation funds for the Department of Defense for assistance to Ukraine violated the ICA. In the memo, the GAO wrote, “Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President...
Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for campaigning for democracy in Myanmar. But her silence in the face of the military crackdown on the Rohingya minority in 2017 in her country after she had become its de facto leader, had people calling for her Nobel Prize to be withd...
How does contact tracing work? When someone is infected with the novel coronavirus, they may unknowingly spread it to other people. Since COVID-19 symptoms take up to 14 days to manifest, those people could then go about their lives not knowing that they’d been exposed, spreading the virus...
But this was more than 200 years ago. So, why does the Electoral College still exist? Some say the Electoral College forces political parties to pay attention to the whole country. Without it, candidates could just target highly populated cities and skip over rural America when campaigning and...
It’s what is known as a misfire election, and 2016 wasn’t the first time in American history that it has happened. RELATED:The Electoral College: How does it work? Why do we have it? Could it ever change? Here’s what you need know ...
Sometimes even the rich and powerful adopt non-standard grammar. Former president George W. Bush grew up as the son of a senator and went to Harvard and Yale. But when he was campaigning, he spoke like a "regular Joe," or someone from th...
RELATED:The Electoral College: How does it work? Why do we have it? Could it ever change? Here’s what you need know Misfire elections have occurred five times in presidential history, and twice in the past five presidential elections. ...