Voting Issues and Electoral Reform PAN: Information Sources on Voting Patterns and Polls
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Some initial sources on voting patterns
Polling and Voting data
FiveThirtyEight is a site created by Nat Silver with Sean Quinn for the 2008 elections, which aims - in thier own words - " to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections."
Traditional polling sources
Real Clear Politics provides summaries of results from major polling organizations such as
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
Useful sites for analysis of voting and polling data
The Democratic Strategist - edited by William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira includes articles on election analysis.
Interesting analysis and commentary on the election result
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Read Robert Worcester's (MORI polls) presentation of his analysis of the Presidential result at a recent London conference.
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Read the discussion in the UK Prospect magazine. Included in this discussion of the implications of Obama's election for racial divisions is an article by Jonathan Derbyshire entitled "Post-racial Kitsch" and his interviews with Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanian-American philosopher and theorist of identity, John McWhorter, an African-American linguist who has attacked "black victimology," and Tommie Shelby, a historian of the black solidarity movement, which are recorded in full.
Please suggest other sources and articles on particular topics in the Voting and Electoral Issues Forum.
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