Altered States - Changing Populations, Changing Parties, and the Transformation of the American Political Landscape (Holbrook Thomas M. (Wilder Crane Professor of Government University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee))(Pevná vazba)

The 2012 presidential elections represented the second consecutive defeat for the Republican Party, and its fourth defeat out of the last six presidential elections. In recent years both Republican and Democratic strategists and pundits have spoken of an emerging Democratic Party lock on the Electoral College and speculated that even in the wake of Republican victories in Congress, presidential candidates are still at a major disadvantage due to the party's increasing demographic and geographic isolation. In Altered States, Thomas Holbrook looks at change in party fortunes in presidential elections since 1972, documenting the magnitude, direction, and consequences of changes in party support in the states. He finds that the Democrats do not have a lock on the Electoral College, but that their position has improved dramatically over the past forty years in a number of
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