The 2012 election is in the books, and as we head into the new term filled with new elections, there are polling lessons we should take with us. Yet, as this list of the top five polling rules from 2012 will demonstrate, there will always be exceptions to the rule. […] Read more »
The Growing Electoral Clout of Blacks Is Driven by Turnout, Not Demographics
Blacks voted at a higher rate this year than other minority groups and for the first time in history may also have voted at a higher rate than whites, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, election day exit poll data and vote totals from selected cities […] Read more »
2012 Polling Accuracy: Right Winner, But Different Trends
… While the public polls collectively predicted an Obama victory, they also understated Obama’s margins, both nationally and in a half-dozen battleground states. And, perhaps more importantly, some polls told very different stories about how much voter preferences shifted over the final weeks of the campaign. [cont.] Mark Blumenthal, Huffington […] Read more »
25 Interesting Facts about the 2012 Elections
As we prepare to truly turn the page on the 2012 election and begin to focus on the 2014 cycle, here are 25 interesting facts about the 2012 election that you probably didn’t know. … President Obama won 77 percent of all counties with a Whole Foods Market, and just […] Read more »
Closing the Book on 2012
Now that we have official election results from nearly every state, we wanted to offer some closing thoughts on election 2012. … Our nation now takes two months to vote, and two months to count the votes. This is unacceptable. It is unwise for balloting to start so many weeks […] Read more »
Election 2012: The Money. The Truth. The Story.
Marty Kaplan, of the USC Annenberg School, discusses the ramifications of the 2012 presidential election. Read more »