How is
electoral data changing?
Not exact matches
When major figures like Halperin ask questions about the generally favored candidate (in this case Obama), does that indicate an important
change in the
electoral polling
data?
By using this rare historical
data from Botswana — a country where, unusually for Africa, elections have been held consistently since independence in the late 1960s — the project team will be able to separate the impact of
electoral competition from the
changed donor pressures of the 1990s.
Political analyst Lewis Baston has been through the
electoral data to see where the
changes could come • Datablog: the
data and methodology
If this analysis of the BES
data is indicative then dramatic
changes are in store for the geography of
electoral competition in May 2015 with important implications for seats.
Electoral data from the 2011 referendum suggests that regions exposed to other
electoral systems are more favourable to
change.
While it's too early to definitively handicap the
electoral impact of a Republican call for carbon taxation (we have, after all, no political
data points to go by), it's not too early to handicap the
electoral impact of the position forwarded by most of the Republican presidential candidates today: pretending that climate
change is an open scientific question while offering cheap fossil fuel as the holy grail of federal policy.