POLI 325D2 Chapter Notes -Zip Code, Andrew Gelman, Pork Barrel
10 Feb 2015
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American democracy chooses by plurality or majority rule election therefore requires broad-based support parties may help officeholders win more and more often than alternatives pork barrel politics: all winners get a piece of pork for their districts. Obama did better than kerry in every state recent pattern of a more stabilized red-blue map belief that working-class whites are swing votes is wrong. Obama did better with these voters than kerry difference across classes were quite small and did not indicate any consistent disadvantage for obama with this group on average, democrats do better among low-income voters. Obama did better than kerry and gore with every income group. Ec ensures that small states get noticed in pres. elections funnelling the popular vote through the ec often turns relatively weak popular pluralities into decisive electoral victories.
