The Wall Street Journal presents a look back at a historic year in politics, including how Mitt Romney won the GOP’s nomination, the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare and how Barack Obama overcame a tough economy to decisively win re-election. Read more »
Add This Group To Obama’s Winning Coalition: ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’
The big demographic story out of the 2012 presidential election may have been President Obama’s domination of the Hispanic vote, and rightfully so. But as we close the book on the election, it bears noting that another less obvious bloc of key swing state voters helped the president win a […] Read more »
The auto bailout didn’t decide the election
In the wake of the first 2012 presidential debate, as former governor Mitt Romney gained ground in swing-state and especially national polls, a narrative took hold about the importance of the auto bailout. The Buckeye State was likely to decide the election, President Obama was over-performing in Ohio relative the […] Read more »
Election 2012 Post Mortem: White Evangelicals and Support for Romney
… A Pew Research Center analysis of exit poll data finds that white evangelical Protestants voted for Romney with as much enthusiasm as his other supporters did. In addition, white evangelical Protestants voted as heavily for Romney as they did for the GOP candidates in 2008 and 2004, and they […] Read more »
More Close Elections, Fewer Close States
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 »