Entries Categorized with "Presidential Tracker"
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Tracking Presidential Campaign Field Operations
- Posted: November 14, 2012
- Author(s): Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
The most visible ways that Democratic and Republican presidential candidates show favoritism for swing states are through public campaign events and ad spending. However, tracking where candidates opened field offices is another useful method of measuring candidate attention. Unsurprisingly, field office placement in the 2012 presidential election showed a strong bias towards swing states.
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Presidential Campaign Attention: Why Most States Aren’t Worth Any Despite Their Generosity
- Posted: November 1, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
For the past two months, FairVote has been highlighting the inequality that the winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes perpetuates: swing states are targetted and safe states are not. However, another type of inequality to consider is the inequality this rule creates between wealthy and non-wealthy safe state residents. Wealthy residents in every state are targetted at fundrairsers, as they provide a good portion of the money funding the campaigns. Low and middle income swing state residents are targetted because they provide votes that could swing a state to one candidate or another. Low and middle income safe state residents, on the other hand, are out of luck.
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Yet Again, Just Three States Draw The Majority of Campaign Attention: Presidential Tracker Update, October 17, 2012
- Posted: October 17, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
This election cycle, the three largest battleground states - Florida, Ohio, and Virginia, together representing about 12.5% of the nation - are receiving the majority of campaign attention as measured by both ad spending and campaign events with presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Florida and Ohio were among the three states in the same position in 2004 and 2008, but Virginia has displaced Pennsylvania as the third most coveted state.
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Swing States and Swing Media Markets: Presidential Tracker Update, October 3, 2012
- Posted: October 3, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
There are 34 days left before Election Day, and the candidates have yet to campaign in 40 states since the end of the Democratic National Convention, which ended September 7. But don't take that to mean that the candidates are sitting on their laurels. Read here where the candidates have been spending their time and money during the month of September.
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FairVote’s Presidential Campaign Tracker: Past, Present, and Future
- Posted: September 18, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, National Popular Vote, Presidential Elections
The presidential campaign has entered its final weeks, when presidential candidates travel and campaign across the country almost every day (in swing states), advertise on television hundreds of times a day (in swing states), and thousands of volunteers devote their weekends and evenings to getting out the vote (in in swing states). This election cycle, FairVote is continuing our efforts to track the candidates’ travel and television ad spending, just as we did in the 2004 and 2008 campaigns and throughout President Barack Obama’s time in office.
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Presidential Inequality, Barack Obama, and a Tale of Two Carolinas
- Posted: September 6, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Rob Richie, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Our current Electoral College rules mean that a mere four percent vote shift can make all the difference in how a state’s voters experience the presidential election. There is no better example than North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Convening in the Swing States: Why the parties are meeting in Florida and North Carolina
- Posted: August 28, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Andrea Levien
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Was it the hope of swing state victories that led the Republican and Democratic parties to decide to host their conventions in Charlotte, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida? Evidence suggests that it was, even if that may not mean much in terms of either campaign’s ability to win those states.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 17
- Posted: August 17, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan could improve his chances in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin, but by how much? Will the overperforming economies of many swing states give President Obama victory in November?
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, August 6
- Posted: August 6, 2012
- Author(s): Presidential Tracker, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections, National Popular Vote
Nationwide polls remain close, but recent swing state polling suggests that President Barack Obama is beginning to pull away from Mitt Romney in the few states that will decide the 2012 presidential election. Obama attempts to further increase this lead with another week of swing state campaigning.
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Swing States of America: Candidate Tracker and News, July 24
- Posted: July 24, 2012
- Author(s): Erin Ellis
- Categories: Presidential Tracker, Home, Presidential Elections, FairVote
POTUS analysts report that there may only be five true battleground states this election: Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina. However, if large numbers of Latinos register to vote, new swing states could emerge. In other news, as only 6 percent of voters are still undecided, the candidates' campaigns spend a whopping $400 on each such voter.