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Showing posts with label party coalitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label party coalitions. Show all posts
Friday, August 30, 2024

For our look at the political differences between the two major parties:

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There are many ways to measure it. This is just one of them.
Thursday, November 3, 2016

What happens to the Republican Party after the election?

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The internal struggle continues. Little has been written about what happens to Democrats - I'll post what I find soon - and if this play...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

From NPR: Why Texas Is Closer To Turning Blue Than It Has Been In Decades

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No one is predicting a Clinton victory, but the race is tighter than it would normally be. We would not be having this conversation if Senat...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

From 538: Where Do Clinton And Trump Have The Most Upside?

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Yet more on a theme that seems to grow over the course of the campaign: Non-college-educated whites are moving toward Donald Trump. Non-w...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

From Slate: The Democratic Party’s Racial Reckoning

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The article is harsh on Trump supporters, but it offers analysis supporting the argument that a realignment is occurring that will change th...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

From Vox: A conservative intellectual explains why the GOP has fallen to Donald Trump

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More evidence of the impact Trump is having on the Republican Party. - Click here for the article . Samuel Goldman is one of America’s mos...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: The Parties on the Eve of the 2016 Election: Two Coalitions, Moving Further Apart

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This helps explain much of the animosity in contemporary politics. - Click here for the article . Ahead of the presidential election, the ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

From the Atlantic: The Great Republican Revolt

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This applies to the section on political parties, and especially on the conflict within each party, particularly the Republican Party - whic...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Regarding Party Coalitions

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2305 students should be prepared for a small number of questions on the various groups that are part of the Democratic and Republican nation...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

From Slate: Donald Trump Is Actually a Moderate Republican - That’s why he’s winning.

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The author argues that despite the bluster Trumps positions are not only moderate, they more closely fit the positions that most of the Rep...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Battle over the Tariff and the Second Party System

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For 2305 students that have reached the section on political parties. Here are links that describe the role that conflict over tariffs playe...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

From the National Journal: THE EMERGING REPUBLICAN ADVANTAGE The idea of an enduring Democratic majority was a mirage. How the GOP gained an edge in American politics—and why it’s likely to last.

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The author argues that Republicans have been able to lure away members of the middle class. - Click here for the article . American parti...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Here's a good look at the coalitions within the Republican Party as of early 2015

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Mitt Doesn’t Know When To Quit Romney And The GOP’s Five-Ring Circus .
Thursday, November 13, 2014

From the National Journal: Why Texas Could Remain a Republican Stronghold for Another Generation

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Talk about Texas turning blue might have been overblown . Republicans have been trying to lure Latinos to identify with the party: Governo...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

From the NYT: With Fear of Being Sidelined, Tea Party Sees the Republican Rise as New Threat

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One of the themes of the election is the marginalization of the Tea Party . As opposed to Texas - where the movement remains strong - the ...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Party Coalitions - 2014

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In 2305 we'll be covering party coalitions. Here are a few stories detailing what we know about how these coalitions for each of the mai...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

From the Texas Tribune: GOP Platform Complicates Hispanic Outreach for Abbott

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This story compliments the previous post. While the Democratic Party has - and continues to try to expand - its coalition, forces within the...

What Keeps the Democratic Party Together?

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Both 2305 and 2306 students should be working through the material on political parties. The material in 2305 covers abstract issues about p...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Is Obama and the Democrats losing the Millennials?

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From the Daily Beast : If Obamacare never gets fixed, it might just sour the single best relationship the Democratic Party has: its love ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Can Elizabeth Warren drive a wedge within the Democratic Party?

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Most of our attention in class has been focused on the wedge between the business and Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, but the Massac...