ate in Taiwan. The January election, restoring incumbent Ma as president, captured international attention as many anticipated a resulting shift in the precarious relationship between Taiwan and China. With the two main party candidates maintaining distinctly different stances on cross-strait policy, the election was expected to decide the future of the nation’s trading policies, potentially altering the status quo set by the Economic Cooperation...
...y or another. And like a debutante in old-fashioned society, states must possess a substantial dowry and be eligible (that is, not already committed to a party) to merit attention from suitors–in this case, presidential candidates. From the candidate’s point of view, states fall into one of three categories: those that are not worth the effort (because they are too poor in electoral votes or because they are already committed to a par...
...topics, ranging from views about specific individuals to general subjects. Groups seeking information from polls fall into four broad categories: corporations conducting market research, media outlets gauging public opinion, candidates seeking information from voters, and elected officials measuring public opinion in their constituencies. As interesting as an in-depth look at corporate polling would be, the nature of this publication begs a look...
...licans are blazing forward with this plan. In many of these states, congressional district lines have been gerrymandered to favor Republicans, effectively guaranteeing that those districts will support Republican presidential candidates in future elections. As Stephen Colbert aptly said of gerrymandering when he highlighted this trend, “Instead of the voters getting to pick their leaders, the leaders get to pick their voters.” Moreover, Maddow q...
...f fraud he is willing to use to do so. It may, however, have an effect on the reason why Putin will almost definitely be President six months from now. Right now, there is no one else. The current crop of Russian presidential candidates who are not Vladimir Putin includes the usual cast of weak Duma opposition characters that have been running since the mid-1990s; a man who, when running for president in 2004, said, “We all want Vladimir to be th...
America has now gotten a good intimate look at both presidential candidates, but the battle for the White House continues. The Republican Convention achieved its goal of humanizing Mitt Romney and resetting his public image; personal testaments from his wife Ann and former members of his church painted a picture of a generous and friendly man far different than Obama’s portrayal of him as a ruthless corporate raider. The Democratic Convention ac...
...that “I do mechanics, not message.” In recent years, he’s displayed his talent, and party fundraising can boast of impressive milestones like taking in $11 million at the recent unity dinner headlined by the Dem presidential candidates, trumping the DNC’s previous best of $4.7 million from a dinner in 2001. Moreover, McAuliffe has eliminated the party’s debt even in the new and unfriendly post-McCain-Feingold world, and raised enough cash both t...
...lth insurance that worked sixty years ago be effective now? The American public presses this question today, making healthcare one of the foremost domestic issues of the 2008 presidential election. The Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, confront the issue head on because they believe that healthcare in America is in crisis and will only get worse. They both believe that distributing responsibility between indivi...
er the last of the “conventional wisdom” for the 2012 presidential election season, as well as my predictions, about which I will probably be sheepishly vague after tomorrow night. In light of CNN’s tremendously helpful “both candidates are tied” poll, released this morning, I decided to shift through other major polling sources for state-by-state data that might help me make sense of the mess of polling numbers and demographic groups that is ele...
...lker, even with only two years left in his term. Despite the local nature of the recall, it still has important national ramifications. The lessons learned from the Wisconsin recall election are pertinent to both presidential candidates and provide a preview for what to expect in the coming months. By choosing to keep Scott Walker, Wisconsin voters, acting as a microcosm for the nation at large, showed that they support politicians who keep their...
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