After an era of presidential elections often defined by landslide results, the nation over the last dozen years has entered a period of close contests for the White House. The 2012 voting is the third in the last four to be decided in the popular vote by a margin of […] Read more »
The 2012 Enthusiasm Mirage
Key subgroups of President Obama’s winning coalition including Hispanics, young voters, and unmarried women outperformed their 2008 turnout levels, even though these cohorts exuded less enthusiasm to get to the polls than Governor Romney’s core supporters. [cont.] Resurgent Republic Read more »
The Secrets of the 2012 Campaign
… The Romney campaign was shocked on election night. Advisers had predicted that Romney would win decisively. That confidence was based largely on their polling, which was based on a generous interpretation of the electorate. The Obama campaign, by contrast, had several different streams of polling information coming in. [cont.] […] Read more »
Report & video: The Obama Coalition in the 2012 Election and Beyond
Since Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968 and George McGovern’s run in 1972, progressives have sought to create a multiracial, multiethnic, cross-class coalition—made up of African Americans, Latinos, women, young people, professionals, and economically populist blue-collar whites—supporting an activist government agenda to expand economic opportunities and personal freedoms for […] Read more »
One month later, Republicans find plenty of blame for election loss
Almost a month has passed since Mitt Romney’s defeat in the 2012 presidential election, but the finger pointing continues. Some Republicans charge that Romney was a flawed candidate, while others insist the party’s image was a drag on the ticket. There’s the argument that the Romney campaign was outmaneuvered by […] Read more »
How Exit-Polling Firm Withstood Hurricane Sandy
When Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in late October, many businesses shut down operations, delayed projects and waited until the storm’s effects on their workplace and employees had dissipated. But Edison Research, a polling firm based in hard-hit Somerville, N.J., was working on one project with a firm deadline: […] Read more »