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Keeping a finger on the public pulse : private polling and presidential elections / by Altschuler, Bruce E.(CARDINAL)160497;
Bibliography: pages 189-192.
Subjects: Public opinion polls.; Election forecasting; Political campaigns;
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Predicting the winner : the untold story of election night 1952 and the dawn of computer forecasting / by Chinoy, Ira,author.(CARDINAL)888819;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and index.Fearsome Contraptions -- We Wanted to Do Something Unusual -- Are Computers Newsworthy? -- Project X versus Operation Monrobot -- Stirred Up by the Roughest Campaign of Modern Times -- This Is Not a Joke or a Trick -- The Mechanical Genius -- The Trouble with Machines Is People -- A Hazard of Being Discredited in the Public's Mind -- Truly the Question of Our Time."Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when Dwight David Eisenhower won in a landslide and was elected president of the United States"--"The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An out-of-the-box approach to predicting winners from early returns with new tools-computers-was launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television. Like exhibits in a freak show, computers were referred to as "electronic brains" and "mechanical monsters." Yet this innovation would help fuel an obsession with numbers as a way of understanding and shaping politics. It would engender controversy down to our own time. And it would herald a future in which the public square would go digital. The gamble was fueled by a crisis of credibility stemming from faulty election-night forecasts four years earlier, in 1948, combined with a lackluster presentation of returns. What transpired in 1952 is a complex tale of responses to innovation, which Ira Chinoy makes understandable via a surprising history of election nights as venues for rolling out new technologies, refining methods of prediction, and providing opportunities for news organizations to shine. In Predicting the Winner, Chinoy tells in detail for the first time the story of the 1952 election night-a night with continuing implications for the way forward from the dramatic events of 2020-2021 and for future election nights in the United States. "--
Subjects: Presidents; Presidents; Election forecasting;
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How Trump stole 2020 / by Palast, Greg,author.(CARDINAL)666383; Rall, Ted,illustrator,author.(CARDINAL)370742;
"Has Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known--in large part thanks to this author--it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. The scope is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone--the testing ground--Republican voting officials quietly removed half a million voters from the voter rolls--including Martin Luther King's ninety-two-year-old cousin Christine Jordan. How Trump Stole 2020 is the story of the racially poisonous schemes to steal the 2020 election, the political operatives behind the trickery--and the hard right billionaires funding it all, written by the investigative reporter who has been covering this story from the outset"--
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Presidents; Presidents; Presidents;
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Predicting the next president : the keys to the White House / by Lichtman, Allan J.author.(CARDINAL)135668;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Logic of the keys: how presidential elections really work -- Turning the keys to the presidency -- Civil War and reconstruction -- The Gilded Age -- Rise and fall of progressivism -- Depression, war, and Cold War -- Reagan and beyond -- A false dawn for democrats: 1996-2004 -- The winds of political change: 2008 -- Stability in the White House: forecast for 2012 -- 2016-2020: America's trumped-up politics -- 2024: Biden redux at 81? -- Lessons of the keys: toward a new presidential politics."In the updated 2024 edition of this classic text, Lichtman applies the keys to every presidential election since 1860 and shows readers the current state of the 2024 race. In doing so, he dispels much of the mystery behind electoral politics and challenges many traditional assumptions. An indispensable resource for political junkies!"--
Subjects: Presidents; Presidents; Election forecasting; Political indicators;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Early election returns and projections affecting the electoral process : hearings held jointly before the Committee on House Administration and the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, June 10, 1981, Washington, D.C., June 29, 1981, Sacramento, California, July 7, 1981, Seattle, Washington. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on House Administration.(CARDINAL)148427; United States.Congress.House.Committee on Energy and Commerce.Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance.(CARDINAL)267481;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Election forecasting; Elections; Voting; Television in politics;
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Beyond the horse race : how to read polls and why we should / by Zogby, John,author.(CARDINAL)551155;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Good polls, bad polls, no polls -- A brief primer on polling : how to design a good sample and ask the right questions -- Getting the polls right and how to read them right -- Misreading what the polls are really saying -- Reading polls from the bottom up -- The aggregation-industrial complex -- The ones that got away -- The perils of polling overseas elections -- Polling is very much alive."Americans are preoccupied with political polls. In this book, John Zogby, one of America's most prominent pollsters, offers readers a master class in understanding what polls can reveal about public opinion. He argues that those who focus only on the horse race numbers--who is leading and who is trailing--miss the many ways that polls can help us understand the fundamentals of the electorate at any given time. Illustrating his arguments from key political races of the last 40 years, Zogby shares true stories about how polls have been misused and when they have been used well or badly. Beyond the Horse Race will appeal to campaign professionals and armchair political junkies who want to understand the art and science of accurately gauging public opinion"--
Subjects: Election forecasting; Public opinion polls;
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Downfall : the demise of a president and his party / by Hacker, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)125611;
Part I: Why He Can't Do It Again -- One Term -- How We Got Him -- Those Three States -- Embracing an Interloper -- A Presidential Cheat Sheet -- The 93 Percent Turnout -- Kansas? -- Irregular Elections -- Surrendered Seats -- Rallying the Flock -- Electors: When They Supersede -- How Representative Is the House? -- How Skewed Is the Senate? -- Five-Four Justice -- Two Town Halls -- A New Electorate -- A Partisan President -- Part II: Republicans and Their Party -- The Concordat -- A Men's Den -- Policing Pregnancies -- Imposing Normality -- The Republican South -- A White Haven -- Anti-Affirmative Action -- Colleges, Climate, and Other Chimeras -- Lethal Weapons -- Fortress America -- Three Lies -- Conservative or Populist: Neither or Both? -- November 3, 2020."Take a tour through the elections since 2016 and the Republican Party's strongest stances to understand the impending defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential election. Downfall does not offer a prediction or wishful thinking-it affirms a certainty. Veteran political scientist Andrew Hacker's vast array of evidence points to the conclusion that Donald Trump will not be reelected, regardless of which Democratic candidate opposes him. Based on a close analysis of midterm and special elections, Hacker has found that Trump's so-called base is shrinking and that a strong majority of voting Americans want Trump out of office. Alongside comments from Republican Party members on why they stand with their party, Hacker autopsies their most steadfast viewpoints to illustrate from where these opinions stem and why Trump supporters provide him with votes. This includes an examination of Republican positions on: Gun control, Abortion and women's rights, Sexism and gender disparities, Racism and affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, Climate Change, And more. Both a look back at the years since Trump's election and a glimpse into what lies ahead for politics, Downfall provides an optimistic outlook that the most divisive leader in the US's history will join the ranks of one-term presidents."--
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Presidents; Presidents; Presidents;
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Blitz : Trump will smash the Left and win / by Horowitz, David,1939-author.(CARDINAL)712684;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.Conservative commentator David Horowitz looks ahead to the 2020 presidential election, chronicling bitter backlash President Trump has faced and denounces left-wing socialist agendas.
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Democratic Party (U.S.); Presidents; Progressivism (United States politics);
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In the eye of the storm : swept to the center by God / by Robinson, V. Gene,1947-(CARDINAL)544782;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The elephant in the room : homosexuality and the church -- My faith, my life : everyday Christianity -- Embracing the exile : notes on the margins -- God's loving hands in the world : building the body of Christ -- The compass rose : charting the course of the Communion.
Subjects: Robinson, V. Gene, 1947-; Episcopal Church; Episcopal Church; Episcopal Church; Gay clergy; Homosexuality; Homosexuality; Church work; Church work; Anglican Communion;
© c2008., Morehouse Pub.,
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Memoranda concerning Sheldon Jackson and the moderatorship of the 109th General assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America. Winona assembly grounds, Eagle Lake, Indiana, May 20-28, 1897. For private circulation.
Forecast of the moderatorship -- The election --Nomination addresses -- Congratulations -- The press -- Presentation of gavel -- Presentation of historical cane
Subjects: Biographies.; Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (1897); Old State Library Collection.;
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