This is the second of three posts describing how political science helps explain the success of Donald Trump. In the first post, we discussed the research showing that most voters are not ideologues, and, in particular, that many Republicans have liberal positions about government spending. This gives a heterodox candidate […] Read more »
Why Trump Now?
The economic forces driving this year’s nomination contests have been at work for decades. Why did the dam break now? CONT. Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times Read more »
Voting restrictions stir anger, mobilize more Democrats to polls
In recent years, many states have passed laws that make it more difficult for people to register and vote. But while these laws may be disenfranchising some minority voters—many of whom support the Democratic Party—they also may be having the unintended consequence of angering many voters, mobilizing them to go […] Read more »
What differentiates Trump supporters from other Republicans? Ethnocentrism.
Donald Trump’s success in the Republican presidential campaign has surprised most political observers. But this does not mean his success is inexplicable. We know, for example, that support for Trump is strongly related to concern about immigration as well as to racial prejudice and white ethnocentrism. Almost 20 percent of […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Winning Numbers in South Carolina Suggest Sweep in South
After winning South Carolina’s Democratic primary eight years ago, Senator Barack Obama declared that “after four great contests, we have the most votes, the most delegates, and have the broadest coalition for change.” Tonight it is his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, who can now make the same claim. … The […] Read more »
With All Eyes On Trump, Clinton Is Winning The Democratic Nomination
… According to the South Carolina exit poll, Sanders lost black voters 16 percent to 84 percent. That doomed him in a contest in which 62 percent of voters were black. … Sanders’s loss of momentum couldn’t have come at a worse time for his campaign. There are six Super […] Read more »