So we were curious: Just how many swing voters are there? A number of researchers have tried to tackle this question, and it turns out, there’s a pretty big range of answers. That’s because defining who is and isn’t a swing voter isn’t easy, as it’s a small group. But esti...
At a recent company retreat, a colleague and I were nerding out (as is our wont) and debating a question: Just how many elected officials are there in the United States in total? It's an easy question to start answering—you begin with the president and vice ...
Beeson: As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that voting is a privilege, so voting in 2020 was very important to me — as is voting this year. While votingisa constitutional right, there are so many ways in which people’s right to vote is being restricted or is made more difficult....
How many delegates are there? Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions will feature thousands of delegates representing all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories. Democrats will have about 3,900 voting delegates for the first ballot at the convention, ...
The article discusses the disenfranchisement law in the U.S. which covers people who have been convicted of felonies. Topics discussed include the anti-voting laws affecting the basic right of mostly Black and Latino Americans and Maryland legislators approval of a bill in April 2015 which ...
He remained competitive in 2020, despite losing the popular vote, because these are large blocs and he won many of them decisively. In 2020, VoteCast found that about three-quarters of U.S. voters were white and 55% of them backed Trump. The president secured the support ...
Focuses on the capitalization of elites on preexisting linkages between issues and social groups to alter criteria of political decisions of Americans. Impact of racial cues in campaigns on racial attitudes; Influences of political advertisements on candidate preferences; Mediation of the race cues by ...
What are Americans voting for besides president? Voters will also elect new members of Congress, the legislative branch of the US government which is made up of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each state has two Senators and at least one Representative. ...
Americans are increasingly disillusioned with their own democracy. Up to 67 percent of Americans think the nation's democracy is in danger of collapse, showed a poll by The Quinnipiac University Poll on Aug. 31, 2022. According to a Pew Center poll, 65 percent of Americans believe that the ...
But it’s unclear how strong some of these trends are, according to Linda Vo, a professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. For instance, even though many Vietnamese Americans identify as Republicans, there is some evidence that they might b...