Six Minnesota State Senate candidates have pledged to fight against gerrymandering and unfair districting if elected, the nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project announced today.
Entries Tagged as 'Redistricting'
Minnesota Senate Candidates Pledge To Fight Gerrymandering
October 20th, 2020, 5:06pm by Zachariah Sippy
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Redistricting
Fairer districting in November for one-fourth of all House districts?
October 20th, 2020, 8:23am by Sam Wang
Wherever you are, there are so many reasons to vote. We have resources in the right sidebar. See the PEC 50-State Voter Guide. Also at other sites, see Taniel’s What’s on the Ballot? and Stephen Colbert’s Better Know A Ballot. Today, I have a rundown of all the ways you can make a difference in […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Redistricting
Two-fers
October 10th, 2020, 7:05pm by Sam Wang
With three weeks to go in the campaign, fundraising is heating up. That’s even true for state legislatures, which will shape the political playing field for 10 years through redistricting. Today I will give four examples of how one donation can do the work of two.
Tags: 2020 Election · President · Redistricting · Senate
Slow (downticket) train coming
October 6th, 2020, 5:24pm by Sam Wang
In surveys conducted October 1-4, surveys show Biden up by a 10.0 +/- 0.6 percentage points (7 surveys, median +/- estimated SEM). If sustained, that’s a larger popular margin than Obama 2008 (7.3 points) or Clinton 1996 (8.5 points. The last larger win was Reagan 1984 (18.2 points). The Presidential Meta-Margin, on the other hand, […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · President · Redistricting · Senate
Eagleton Institute Event: Understanding the Proposed N.J. Constitutional Amendment
October 6th, 2020, 1:00pm by Sam Wang
COVID-19 has delayed the U.S. Census and will complicate next year’s scheduled redrawing of legislative lines. In response, the New Jersey state legislature passed ACR188, a bill that would delay the redistricting process. While all states will be affected by the prospect census data arriving later than expected in 2021, New Jersey and Virginia are […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting
Sam on The New Abnormal (again)
October 2nd, 2020, 8:57pm by Sam Wang
Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson had me back on their podcast, The New Abnormal! So pleased that they had me back. Molly is total fun, and so disrespectful. We talked elections of course, with a focus on Moneyball 2020. Many of you are focused on the Senate (which is swinging toward Democrats, thanks to Alaska […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Moneyball · Redistricting · Senate
An “effective altruism” approach to the election
September 28th, 2020, 3:21am by Sam Wang
September 29: Modified to take into account change in Florida ratings. If you’ve been giving to races we’ve identified as high voter power, you may have noticed that once in a while, we make small changes. The reason is that our best estimate of return on investment responds to events or additional analysis. We will […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting · Senate
The New Gilded Age, By The Numbers
September 24th, 2020, 1:26pm by Sam Wang
We’re in an exceptionally difficult time in our nation’s political history. A combination of economic stagnation, partisan polarizations, and demographic change has brought us to the point of losing our national consensus on what it means to have a United States. Is there any hope? Professor Jack Balkin says yes. In his new book, The […]
Tags: 2016 Election · 2020 Election · Politics · President · Redistricting
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
Florida voter-registration update
September 21st, 2020, 1:52pm by Sam Wang
In Florida the voter registration deadline is two weeks away, on October 5. Florida is a critical state for both the presidency and state legislative control over redistricting. My team at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project has determined that Florida is one of a handful of states where elections (as opposed to reform) are the main […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Redistricting
