منابع مشابه
Malaysia’s 2008 General Election
Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s decline and the democratization of politics. This paper, however, shifts attention from the dominant party to citizen...
متن کاملOlder voters and the 2008 election.
PURPOSE In the 2008 presidential election, a majority of older persons voted for John McCain, the loser. The purposes of this report are to help illuminate why older voters were the only age-group that gave a majority to McCain and to delineate some ongoing issues in the analysis of older persons' voting behavior. METHODS Analysis was undertaken by mining raw data from the 2008 Edison-Mitofsk...
متن کاملPreserving 2008 US Presidential Election Videos
Online digital video hosting and sharing sources are becoming increasingly popular. People are not only uploading and viewing videos at these sites, but are also discussing them. In addition to the comments, visitors also rate and link these videos. Statistics about these and other user behaviors on such sites can tell us a lot about social trends and patterns, which in turn can serve as import...
متن کاملRacial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election
We survey the evidence on whether racial attitudes negatively affected Barack Obama’s vote share in the 2008 presidential election. There is some evidence pointing toward this possibility. First, the increase in the Democratic vote share in the presidential election between 2004 and 2008 was relatively smaller in Appalachia and some Southern states. Second, there was a significantly smaller 200...
متن کاملA Snapshot of the 2008 Election
We present maps of the 2008 presidential voting bases on ethnicity, income, and state, and discuss the challenges involved in statistical modeling and the graphical presentation of the results
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0096-3941
DOI: 10.1029/eo088i047p00497-02