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Showing posts with label partisanship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partisanship. Show all posts
Monday, June 24, 2024

From Vanity Fair: Republicans Proudly Declare They’re Against Making Contraception a Federal Right

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As we discuss in class, aside from the small number of rights specifically stated in the First Amendment everything else is subject for deba...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Can Texas Republicans hold America’s reddest large urban county?

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Tarrant County - Fort Worth - is the only large county in Texas not dominated by Democrats. The author tries to find out why. Demographics s...
Monday, July 4, 2016

From Vox: The single most important fact about American politics

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I can't recommend this highly enough. It'll be a part of my look at political participation and political parties for some time. It ...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: 5 facts about the Supreme Court

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Mostly facts about the public's attitude about the Supreme Court. - Click here for the article . A summary: 1 - Unfavorable opinions o...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

From the Washington Post: What a divided America actually hears when Obama speaks

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More on partisan polarization in the American public. Similar things could likely be said about the current presidential candidates. - Cli...
Monday, February 15, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Presidential job approval ratings from Ike to Obama

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Because we could use a quick break from Scalia. Aside from showing a concise picture of shifts in presidential approval, this also points yo...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Americans Evaluate the Balance between Security and Civil Liberties

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Here's the poll the previous story referred to. - Click here for it . And here are a few of its graphs:

From EurekAlert: Survey finds majority who believe it is sometimes necessary for government to sacrifice freedoms

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Its a perennial trade off - security v freedom. People are willing to give up lot's in the way of personal freedom in exchange for secu...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

From the Huffington Post: Do Americans Prefer a "Democracy" or a "Republic"?

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2305 students should be ready for questions related to the terms "democracy" and "republic." Conveniently, this item pop...
Monday, April 14, 2014

From Atlantic Cities: America's Most Sprawling Cities Are Also the Most Republican

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Something to add to our material on ideology, partisanship and political behavior: - Click here for the article . With the help of my Mart...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

From the Monkey Cage: Why don’t Americans trust the government? Because the other party is in power.

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A couple researchers argue that people's opinions about government is conditioned by who is in charge. - Click here for the article . Pe...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Partisan differences in priorities on public matters

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The Pew Research Center reports on the public's priorities , and includes a table contrasting what Democratic and Republican identifiers...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Red States, Blue States and abortion restrictions

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To continue a theme from yesterday. Red states are more likely to place restrictions on abortions than blue states. For proof: Source: Thi...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Red States, Blue States and Obamacare

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For our discussion of state political culture and federalism: This is probably not too surprising but people in blue states are enrolling in...

And another red/blue image

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This gives us a good idea about how counties with various population densities vote. Notice that the most populous counties vote Democrat....

Which are the red states and which are the blue states?

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A couple maps from a physics professor at the University of Michigan. This shows which states voted Democrat (Blue) and Republican (Red) in...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

From the Gallup Poll: Liberal Self-Identification Edges Up to New High in 2013

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A big surprise, and possibly a reaction to the increased attention to inequality in the US. The figures are based on combined data fr...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Congress is increasingly polarized

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This builds off the power below about partisan polarization in approval of Obama. Congress is similarly polarized . This graph shows how the...

Obama's Polarized Ratings

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The Gallup Poll reports that Obama's approval ratings are among the most polarized ratings - based on partisanship - yet measured. C...
Monday, November 7, 2011

From the Gallup POll: Support for Third U.S. Party Dips, but Is Still Majority View

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Despite what we've discovered in class, thee is still strong support for third parties in the U.S: Fifty-two percent of Americans believ...