Presidential election 2008

Each of the two major political parties in the US actually consists of two factions that don’t always have the same goals: the presidential party and the congressional party. This […]

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got in trouble with some liberals, and gay/lesbian groups in particular, for inviting an "ex-gay" gospel singer (see New York Times) to perform at a […]

The New York Times has an interactive map showing where all the presidential candidates have made visits since the beginning of the year. Both parties have campaign activity focused in […]

Saturday, October 27, 2007 Then we wouldn’t have such close elections. Political scientist Andrew Gelman has posted some maps showing how the rich, middle-class, and poor voted in the last […]

New polls in California and Florida give Rudy Giuliani 25 to 30 percent of the Republican presidential primary vote, with no other candidate cracking 15 percent in either state. Time […]

Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976 with great help from early victories in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, but what clinched things for him was […]

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz takes a look at the efforts by Iowa and New Hampshire to preserve their spots at the head of the line in the presidential nomination […]

The Federal Election Commission has released data on contributions to presidential campaigns as of the last day of September, so it’s time for some geographic data-crunching. (But if you go […]

Third-quarter presidential fundraising statistics are out, and places like the New York Times have rather unhelpful maps that show where candidates are getting their money but are not adjusted for […]

At least that’s the effect of their pledges not to campaign in any state that dares to defy Iowa and New Hampshire by holding their primary too early. The St. […]

Yesterday five Democratic candidates (Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Biden, Kucinich) pulled their name off the ballot for the January 15 presidential primary in Michigan, leaving Christopher Dodd as the only obstacle […]

"Voters have a very strange way of not listening to the pundits." — Gary Hart, to the Boston Globe’s Scot Lehigh in an October 5 column titled "Clinton is far […]

Over the next few months, I’ll be posting maps to set up the geographical context of the 2008 presidential election, and to explain how I came up with the 10 […]

Friday, October 5, 2007 Blue Mass. Group has a great post (and subsequent discussion) about the Iowa caucuses and how different they are from any kind of election most of […]

We wanted to launch this blog in time to cover the 2008 presidential primaries, but we can’t guarantee that those primaries will be at all exciting. Things on the Republican […]

UPDATE: November 2008 results. Also see my pre-election preview in America magazine. UPDATE: See charts on the voting history of each of the regions from 1948 through 2004 here. There […]

UPDATE: November 2008 results. Also see my pre-election preview in America magazine. UPDATE: See charts on the voting history of each of the regions from 1948 through 2004 here. There […]