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Counties Won in Popular Voting | americanpast.org
United States Politics, 1840 – 2008 content starts Counties Won in Popular Voting if Safari/Chrome if Firefox If the browser doesn’t understand the element, then reference a Flash file. content ends wrap ends here © Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond, 2010 | Contact Us Counties Won in Popular Voting. Read More
Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide Is Splitting America – The Atlantic
Partisan lines that once fell along regional borders can increasingly be found at the county level. What does that mean for the future of the United States? Starting before the Civil War era, America’s political dividing lines were drawn along state and regional borders. Cities and the then-extensive rural areas shared a worldview North and Read More
In-Depth Survey Compares Nonvoters to Voters: Northwestern University News
WASHINGTON, D.C. — What do nonvoters look like, can they be categorized and why don’t they vote? To answer these and other questions, a Northwestern University journalism professor and Ipsos Public Affairs conducted an in-depth post-Election Day sample survey between Nov. 7 and Nov. 19, 2012. The results of their online interviews with 1,686 American Read More
Elections Aren’t as Democratic as Markets | Foundation for Economic Education
*Representation/Voting, #Non-democratic voting system, #Regulation/Tarifs/... (no opt-out), #Self-referentiality of Institutions, #Tyranny of the majority
The presidential campaign is just a few months old, but it already feels like years. Luckily, according to the calendar, less than a year remains. The end will come. Listening to the preposterous and outrageous promises of presidential candidates offers a reminder that politics is a truly awful way to make decisions. Tell people who
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