Archive for the ‘political animal’ tag
Red State, etc. #
July 1st, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
I think these graphs — plotting US states by their economic and social conservatism — are rather cool. But like Kevin Drum, I am curious where Alaska and Hawaii have gone.
How Gay Marriage Polls #
May 30th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
Two things I’ve been meaning to share from Political Animal:
- A historical analysis of poll shows acceptance grows about about a point a year, with some violent perterbations around all the hubub of 2004. (via)
- And a recent California poll suggest voters actually support it, and oppose a ban. (via)
Getting People to Vote #
March 10th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
The most effective way: shame.
[S]end out letters telling people whether they and their neighbors have voted in past elections and promising to send a followup letter after the election. The unsubtle message is: voting records are public information, and if you don’t vote this year your neighbors will know about it. So do your civic duty, dammit.
Result: turnout among those who got the letters was a whopping 8.1 percentage points higher than the control group.