I want to thank everyone who’s been a loyal reader of PEC. This year we went beyond poll aggregation to focus on optimizing your efforts, up and down the ticket. Our particular emphasis is the long game: actions that enhance the responsiveness of U.S. democracy to voters, whether for a decade (redistricting) or longer (voting […]
Entries Tagged as 'Princeton'
Postdoctoral positions at our new Electoral Innovation Lab!
December 3rd, 2020, 8:33am by Sam Wang
Want to apply your intellectual skills to real-life reform? The Electoral Innovation Lab (an expansion of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project) is searching for postdocs! Our mission is to apply law, science, and math to strengthening U.S. democracy. Example topics include redistricting, ranked-choice voting, and open primaries. We see our work as relating to political science […]
Tags: Princeton · Redistricting · U.S. Institutions
Today at Princeton: Ambassador Samantha Power
November 19th, 2020, 3:49pm by Sam Wang
Today at 5:00pm Eastern, I’ll help host former UN Ambassador Samantha Power. It’s part of the University Public Lecture series. It will be a conversation between Amb. Power and Deb Amos, my colleague in Journalism and NPR News correspondent. This lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.Or you can watch this […]
Tags: Princeton
Last snapshot, 2020: President, Senate, legislatures
November 3rd, 2020, 5:55pm by Sam Wang
Today’s the last day of voting. In normal years we call it Election Day. This year, it’s the day when the vote-counting begins. Thanks to all the early voting, polling stations are generally not busy. If you haven’t yet, go vote! Text MYVOTE to 977-79 to find your polling place. Here are some resources for […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Princeton · Redistricting · Senate
Politics & Polls #208: Election Day 2020
November 3rd, 2020, 2:06pm by Sam Wang
This morning Julian Zelizer and I went down memory lane…to our 2016 pre-election episode. It was an eye-opener. I talk about elections very differently now. We get into what to look for, what to be concerned about, and how to use polling data without being a passive observer. Take a listen!
Tags: 2020 Election · Politics · Princeton
Electoral innovation at Princeton
September 21st, 2020, 10:22pm by Sam Wang
Many of you are making use of the donation links in the right sidebar. In addition, I call your attention to our own work. We are working in multiple areas: optimizing voter effectiveness in elections, fair districting, and voting reform. This year, we are bringing together all these projects under one umbrella, the Electoral Innovation […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Princeton · Redistricting
Two Days With R.B.G.
September 18th, 2020, 10:36pm by Sam Wang
In 2008 I spent two days hosting Ruth Bader Ginsburg here on campus. The experience was unforgettable. She was kind to all comers, she took questions seriously, even from some neuroscience professor, and she acted like a friend.
Tags: Princeton · Supreme Court
Boosting Princeton turnout: introducing Vote100
September 12th, 2020, 2:14pm by Zachariah Sippy
In 2014, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, only 11% of Princeton Undergraduate students voted. This dismal turnout inspired Princeton’s Vote100 initiative, with a stated goal of encouraging a 100% turnout rate among eligible Princeton students. In 2018, the population of students voting more than quadrupled, to 50%, but it is […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Politics · Princeton
College Reopening, Coronavirus, and the Adolescent Brain
July 3rd, 2020, 12:58pm by Sam Wang
Can colleges reopen safely? Should they try? On Politics and Polls (the podcast for the Princeton Policy School, co-hosted by Julian Zelizer and me), I interview Laurence Steinberg, major expert on adolescence. Our conversation is a mash-up of neuroscience, public health, coronavirus, and the adolescent mind. Spoiler: it’s going to be really, really, rilly difficult. […]
Woodrow Wilson’s name removed from policy school
June 27th, 2020, 12:46pm by Sam Wang
Big news here at Princeton: Woodrow Wilson’s name will be removed from our Policy and International School. See President Christopher L. Eisgruber’s announcement here. Wilson is a huge figure in both Princeton and national history. He helped grow Princeton into the institution it is now. As President of the United States, his role in domestic […]
Tags: Princeton
