The Election Book
Title | The Election Book PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Jackson |
Publisher | Scholastic Paperbacks |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780545457835 |
Find out the answers to all your questions about the presidential election race.
What Is a Presidential Election?
Title | What Is a Presidential Election? PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Yacka |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2024-07-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0593753232 |
This revised edition (updated for the 2024 election) explains American presidential campaigns and includes stickers, activities, and a color-your-own Electoral Map! Who can run for president? What are the differences between America's two major political parties? Is the Electoral College really a college? The newly updated What Is a Presidential Election? answers these questions and many, many more. From stump speeches to campaign slogans, debates to nominating conventions, and finally to Election Night and Inauguration Day, readers will learn all about what it takes to run for--and win--the most powerful job on earth. Activities throughout prompt readers to think about the issues they care most about and consider what makes a good president, sparking discussion with friends and family. Includes a sheet of presidential bobblehead stickers and a color-your-own Electoral Map for the upcoming 2024 election!
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
Title | The Timeline of Presidential Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Erikson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2012-08-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226922162 |
In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering for years with no clear resolution. In The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien reveal for the first time how both factors come into play. Erikson and Wlezien have amassed data from close to two thousand national polls covering every presidential election from 1952 to 2008, allowing them to see how outcomes take shape over the course of an election year. Polls from the beginning of the year, they show, have virtually no predictive power. By mid-April, when the candidates have been identified and matched in pollsters’ trial heats, preferences have come into focus—and predicted the winner in eleven of the fifteen elections. But a similar process of forming favorites takes place in the last six months, during which voters’ intentions change only gradually, with particular events—including presidential debates—rarely resulting in dramatic change. Ultimately, Erikson and Wlezien show that it is through campaigns that voters are made aware of—or not made aware of—fundamental factors like candidates’ policy positions that determine which ticket will get their votes. In other words, fundamentals matter, but only because of campaigns. Timely and compelling, this book will force us to rethink our assumptions about presidential elections.
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Title | Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 067497414X |
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Electing Our President
Title | Electing Our President PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Gill |
Publisher | Fearon Teacher Aids |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822426882 |
Predicting the Next President
Title | Predicting the Next President PDF eBook |
Author | Allan J. Lichtman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2024-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
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In the days after Donald Trump’s unexpected victory on election night 2016, The New York Times, CNN, and other leading media outlets reached out to one of the few pundits who had correctly predicted the outcome, Allan J. Lichtman. While many election forecasters base their findings exclusively on public opinion polls, Lichtman looks at the underlying fundamentals that have driven every presidential election since 1860. Using his 13 historical factors or “keys” (four political, seven performance, and two personality), Lichtman had been predicting Trump’s win since September 2016. In the updated 2024 edition, he applies the keys to every presidential election since 1860 and shows readers the current state of the 2024 race. In doing so, he dispels much of the mystery behind electoral politics and challenges many traditional assumptions. An indispensable resource for political junkies!
The Electoral College
Title | The Electoral College PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Kimberling |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Electoral college |
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