Analyses of the 2012 presidential election are already emerging, with various retrospectives, accounts, and predictions in the works. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative younger scholars who provide a fresh perspective on the election. It is a diverse and award winning group, including established and respected names in presidency studies, political psychology, and election forecasting.
Bringing together leading political geographers and political scientists, this atlas analyzes and maps the campaigns, primaries, general election, and key state referenda in the hotly contested 2012 elections.
See, for example, the studies cited in Henry E. Brady, Richard Johnston, and John Sides, “The Study of Political Campaigns,” in Henry E. Brady and Richard Johnston, eds., Capturing Campaign Effects (Ann Arbor: University ofMichigan ...
In 2008, we argued that the voters in these counties felt the greatest cultural disconnect from Barack Obama. Analysis of these counties' voting patterns in 2012 (bolded in Table 8.4) reveals another significant pro-GOP jolt across them ...
This volume offers a unique and detailed examination of all stages of the 2012 presidential campaign, starting with the primaries and ending with post-election insights.
This book, written by a college professor, analyzes every presidential election in the country’s history with special focus on the role played by the Electoral College.
Presents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome ...
Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Political Science Department at SUNY Cortland. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Politics of Gun Control (Paradigm Publishers, 5th ed.
With the same masterly reporting, unparalleled access, and narrative skill, Double Down picks up the story in the Oval Office, where the president is beset by crises both inherited and unforeseen facing defiance from his political foes, ...
The Democratic “New Deal Coalition” dominated American politics until the 1960s, when it was replaced by a “no majority party” alignment that persists to this day (Schier and Eberly 2012). Little, if any, evidence suggests that 2012 was ...