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Leaning into Education and Politics: Preparing All Students for the 2020 Elections and Beyond
By Abe Goldberg There is great reason to celebrate youth voter turnout following the spike in participation during the most recent midterm elections. Specifically, college student turnout jumped from just […]
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Webinar: NCOBPS-APSA Townhall on Black Voter Turnout in the 2020 Election
“Black Voter Turnout in 2020: The Intersections of Politics, Protest and Pandemics” Thursday, October 8th, at 3:00-4:30 PM EDT | Register Here With three weeks to go to the historic […]
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Your Guide to the Indiana Primaries
Voting can be a complicated process, especially during an unprecedented global pandemic, which has already disrupted, and will continue to disrupt, our electoral processes. This guide to the Indiana primary elections […]
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Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts
Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can […]
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Heartland Dispatch: With Sanders Out, Kansans’ Primary Attention Turns to House, Senate, and State Races
Senator Bernie Sanders withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination this week, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive party nominee to face President Trump this fall. Are […]
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Political Participation in Immigrant Communities
Political participation is one of our most important civic duties. It is part of the original contract we the people agreed to when we founded this country, both native born citizens […]
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Voting in the Time of Corona, Will Louisiana Head to the Polls?
The 2020 Democratic Primary is already one for the history books with several women running to be the nominee, including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Kristen Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar. We […]
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The Badger State Primary (Primaries) in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By the time that Wisconsinites cast our ballots in the presidential preference primary, we will have already voted in two primaries—and we have a couple more coming up later in the spring. Studies […]
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Everywhere is the Same Story: Voter Turnout!
2020 is an important electoral year in the United States. Voters have the opportunity to cast their ballot for a candidate to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the […]
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Why Many Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Fix That
Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark […]
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