Turnout for this year's Democratic primary fell well below previous contests. In 2020,540,000 people — around 16% of voters —participated in the Democratic primary, while in 2016, 373,063 — more than 12% — did the same. In 2012, former President Barack Obama ran unopposed in the pr...
Victims’ willingness to call the police facilitates access to the justice system and potential resources. Research shows a decline in police notifica
The Democrat spent so much of his time addressing long-term priorities that many voters felt he did not adequately deal with more immediate problems like high inflation that peaked in 2022 and illegal crossings at the U.S. border with Mexico. Biden's term ends just as man...
Even if electoral votes were allocated exactly according to each state’s share of the U.S. population or share of eligible voters, the electoral process would still not resemble a national popular vote. Generally, most states are winner-take-all, meaning that the winner of the state in an ...
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, was defending a law that required voters to prove their citizenship before registering to vote. Such voter ID laws are seen by many as a way to suppress legitimate votes, because many eligible voters—in this case, up to 35,000 Kansans—lack ...
In the aftermath of the devastating wildfires, Direct Relief mobilized its resources to address both the immediate and long-term healthcare needs of affected communities. As the fires displaced thousands and overwhelmed local healthcare systems, many residents—particularly those uninsured or underinsured...
5 January 2024 © The Author(s) 2024 Abstract Recent studies have shown that biased search results can produce substantial shifts in the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters – a phenomenon called the "search engine manipulation effect" (SEME), one of the most powerful list effec...
While Commended students are not eligible to compete for the official National Merit Scholarship, they do become candidates for special merit scholarship awards offered by statewide agencies and corporate sponsors. Ah, no wonder why so manyparents are experiencing so much anxiety. The system is so ...
eligible voters as well as promoting free and fair elections. In contrast, we define “anti-voting” lawsuits as those that seek to suppress voting through tactics such as tightening the rules around voter registration, adding more obstacles to mail-in or in-person voting processes and m...
But Joe Biden won it back in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes. In both elections, the state had been the tipping point in the Electoral College. Trump this year will take the state’s 10 electoral votes. Trump’s victory was powered by his strength with...