/* */ edToolbar() Anyone following election coverage this week undoubtedly heard about gender issues. Pundits were quick to comment on what they see as the gender gap in the GOP. Debates on women’s rights and abortion are not new to the Republican Party, but this fall there were unbelievable comments from right-wing candidates stoking the fires. Republican … [Read more...] about 2013: The year of the elected woman?
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Best Chicago media coverage of 2010 Illinois races
With so much sloganeering and mud-slinging leading up to the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the challenge for Chicago’s news media—print, broadcast, online—was whether to echo the races’ shallow bombast … or cut through to the issues. By and large, the metropolitan press held to the latter, more difficult course. Which is saying something, given the staff cutbacks and news hole … [Read more...] about Best Chicago media coverage of 2010 Illinois races
Fall elections could be bad for Democrats
Labor Day marks the time to get more serious about predicting the outcome of the November national elections. Political scientists — including this one — have recently returned from the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. In even-numbered years, there is invariably one or more sessions on projecting the outcome based on past trends and mid-to-late summer poll … [Read more...] about Fall elections could be bad for Democrats