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White working class

…Andrew Gelman has a big data set confirming the point that Republican voting rises with income… … As the pie chart below illustrates, the biggest group in the Republican voting

The Silver Standard

…over time. They estimate pollster reliability with data from actual voting (mostly primaries I think). As of recently he also estimates pollster fixed effects or house effects “the tendency of…

…and the vote was actually on a cloture motion.Senators voting “aye” were voting in favor of cloture — moving forward on the amendment — not voting for the amendment itself….

Voting Machines From everything I’ve read, I’m pretty sure that any election board, council, or panel would reach the same conclusion: California should ban the use of 15,000 touch-screen voting

…minority groups in the Senate. Without the rule, voting “practices and procedures” in Texas are changed, Democrats’ attorneys say… “This single issue is a violation of the Voting Rights Act,…

Sunday News

…not proof of voting. Texas is asking each of the identified for additional proof of citizenship. Texas has one of the strictest voting laws in the nation. Nonvoting citizens is…