Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Anecdote About Knowledge and the 2025 Elections

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Many   posts  have  discussed  what  Americans  do and do not know about their  government . Robin Abcarian at LAT: “We’re getting calls ab...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Change Elections

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Many   posts  have  discussed  the  state of Congress . Bruce Mehlman : Voters in the U.S. and around the world are unhappy with the direc...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections."

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Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America In his opening speech to the ...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Madison and Virtue

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   civic virtue . James Madison, June 20, 1788  But I go on this great republican principle, that the people ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Election Guardrails

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Many posts have discussed the legal aspects of elections .  Richard Pildes at Election Law Blog: As we get closer to the election, we will...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Older Homeowners Dominate Local Elections

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 The Gray Vote: How Older Home-Owning VotersDominate Local ElectionsKatherine Levine Einstein∗Maxwell Palmer†Ellis Hamilton‡Ethan Singer Abs...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Misinformation about Arizona Voter Registration

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation , including falsehoods about elections .  On X, Maricopa County Recorder Stephe...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Freedom in the World 2024

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From Freedom House: Global freedom declined for the 18th consecutive year in 2023. The breadth and depth of the deterioration were extensi...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

The Decline of Electoral Competition

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David A. Lieb and Emily Wagster Pettus at AP: More than four-fifths of Mississippi’s legislative candidates will have no major-party opposit...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Crime Pushes SF Asian American Voters to the Center

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  Asian Americans to Democrats: "we want safe streets, good schools and less progressive ideology." That's the message and 202...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Being a Good Member of Society

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Many posts have discussed topics such as civic duty and partisan polarization . Laura Silver at Pew: Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Threats to Democracy

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David Leonhardt at NYT identifies election denialism as one threat to American democracy . “There is the possibility, for the first time in ...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Exit Polls

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Many posts have discussed issues with survey research . AEI interviewed Joe Lenski, who conduct the National Election Pool: AEI: How ma...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Defense Secretaries Speak Out

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 Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rums...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Cancel or Postpone?

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Some states have postponed primary elections . So many people are wondering: could  a president remain in power by unilaterally canceling ...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Americans Want to End the Electoral College

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Andrew Daniller at Pew: A majority of U.S. adults (58%) say the Constitution should be amended so the presidential candidate who receives ...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Early Voting, Mail Voting, and Coronavirus

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Early voting does have disadvantages, especially in nomination contests where candidates may drop out between the printing of ballots and ...
Sunday, February 23, 2020

Views of Russia

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Carroll Doherty at Pew: Around seven-in-ten Americans (72%) say it is very or somewhat likely that Russia or other foreign governments wil...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Would Vote For...

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Lydia Saad at Gallup: More than nine in 10 Americans say they would vote for a presidential candidate nominated by their party who happene...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Election Security and Human Error

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At R Street, Kristen Nyman and Kathryn Waldron write that human error is the top threat to election systems.  Errors include failure to reco...