Tag: Joe Biden
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The Presidential Election “Postmortem”: Preparing Students for Election Outcomes
By Athena King The 2020 Presidential Election has been described by academics, pundits, and reporters alike as perhaps the “most important election in our lifetime.” There are those who give […]
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Divine Intervention: Can Historically Black Fraternities & Sororities in the Divine Nine Shape Political History in the 2020 Election?
By Caroline Harper On August 11, 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his pick for vice president in the 2020 election. While Harris’ nomination is not […]
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Is There a Catholic Vote and Does It Matter?
Catholics are the largest religious group in the United States comprising roughly 23% of the population. While they are concentrated in the Northeast, there are also sizable populations of Catholics […]
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Explainer: Kentucky’s 2020 Primary Election
By Dr. Benjamin R. Knoll This year’s Kentucky primary election will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020. Below are answers to all the questions you wanted to ask about […]
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Campaigning in a Crisis: Political Communication and Rhetoric during COVID-19
Political analysts and commentators have frequently described Donald Trump’s political communication and rhetoric as unprecedented. Yet during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Trump’s communication and rocky relationship with the press […]
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Do (Nasty) Campaigns Mobilize?
High turnout matters. It is one of the three key indicators of good democratic performance of a country as famously identified by Powell,[1] and its absence is often seen as […]
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What You Need To Know About Election Polls
The surprising outcome of the 2016 presidential election led many people to question the credibility of public opinion polling. That’s a fair question, considering so many polls suggested Hillary Clinton would win the […]
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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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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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Wyoming Democratic Party Experiments for 2020
Wyoming is the nation’s least populous state and has a long history of voting for Republicans in presidential elections. As a result, presidential candidates rarely campaign in the state during […]