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The three reasons a vice presidential candidate is selected

May 6, 2020 election, presidential politics, vice president

BY MATTHEW CROSS   In 2008, freshman Senator Barack Obama defied the odds to win the Democratic nomination for president

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Why Voters Should Care About a President’s Emotional Intelligence

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 American politics, election

BY JOHN SCIANIMANICO In their first debates on June 26 and 27, twenty candidates made the case for why they

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More Information is More Representation: An Argument for Ranked-Choice Voting

May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 election, Elections, voters, voting

BY GRANT TUDOR Congress is polarized. So polarized, in fact, that one would have to go all the way back

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The Red Ballot: How Some Conservative States Are Bucking the Trend and Making Voting Easier

November 6, 2018 election, voting, Voting Rights

BY MICHAEL AUSLEN Indiana is hardly the poster child for voting rights. In 2005, it became the first state in

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Mexico Achieved Gender Parity: Does it Matter?

September 17, 2018 election, female representation, feminism, mexico, voting

BY DANIELA PHILIPSON In 2017, the average proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments was barely above 23%

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Radical Market Electoral Reform

April 10, 2018 election, primary, reform

BY SAGAR DESHPANDE and KEN INSLEY The United States of America is the oldest continuous democracy in the world, but despite the

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How Democrats Can Win in 2018 with Behavioral Science

September 18, 2017January 10, 2018 behavioral science, democrats, election, Facebook, social influence, voter turnout, voting

BY ROBERT REYNOLDS In 1840, Abraham Lincoln authored a plan for the Whig party to win the upcoming election: “watch

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