PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tea Party Movement, Hillary Clinton, Neoconservatism
6 Sep 2016
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Single-member districts, electoral college, nature of electoral system . There are factions within the democratic and republican parties: democratic party. Small libertarian wing but this is not a libertarian party) Education (people with higher levels of education tend to identify left of center. : age (younger voters tend to be more liberal. ) o. Sex (women tend to be democrats. : race and ethnicity (african-american and latinos tend to be democratic. , religion (historically, protestants have voted republican and catholics have voted democratic. ) o. Class (historically, the working class tended to be democratic. Harding + coolidge (1920s), hoover (1930s), eisenhower (1950s) Goldwater? (1964) lost to johnson/did not become president. Far to the right; lost by a landslide. George w. bush (2000-2008): conservative president and conservative legislature. Fdr and truman (1930s + 1940s): economic liberals. Fdr: won 4 elections/the only president to do so: he was the reason term limits were set to 2.
