Plenty of polls for the Presidency – but there’s a polling desert in all-important Senate races. How does this affect your activism? There are two places where you can hedge your efforts, either by preventing gerrymandering for a decade or by influencing the Presidential race.
Entries Tagged as 'Redistricting'
The Senate polling desert
September 16th, 2020, 8:49am by Sam Wang
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting · Senate
Florida Moneyball, 11th Circuit edition
September 13th, 2020, 11:07am by Sam Wang
This week the 11th Circuit issued a shocking opinion curtailing voting rights in Florida. Over half of ex-felons in Florida are now excluded from registering to vote, because first they have to pay fines, fees, and restitution – effectively, a tax on voting. In response to this, we suggest that a solution. Our Redistricting Moneyball […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Redistricting
New PEC feature: 50-State Guide to 2020 Elections
September 1st, 2020, 8:00am by Zachariah Sippy
While the Presidential election is hogging most of the attention, there are literally thousands of other races on the ballot. All 435 US House of Representatives seats, and a large Senate class (35 elections) are up for grabs. These races will have a massive impact on legislation and the composition of federal courts. Our 50-state […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Politics · Redistricting
Redistricting Moneyball – the web event!
August 12th, 2020, 2:41pm by Sam Wang
If you’re coming here because of the NYT article by Thomas Edsall, welcome! Come to our event where we explain what we’re up to. Last week we unveiled “Redistricting Moneyball,” the Princeton Gerrymandering Project strategy to stop gerrymandering in 2021. On August 12 we had a videoconference to explain the model. We encourage everyone to watch […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Politics · Redistricting
Politics & Polls #196: Conventions, the Campaign, and #Moneyball2020
August 10th, 2020, 10:30am by Sam Wang
In the current Politics & Polls, Julian Zelizer and I talk about what conventions are good for, and what not having them might mean. We also talk about the downticket, including the new Redistricting Moneyball project. Tune in!
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Politics · Redistricting
What’s more important than a Presidential probability?
August 9th, 2020, 2:21pm by Sam Wang
Presidential models are mainly of interest in close elections, which have been the norm since 2000. This year, Joe Biden occasionally gets within sight of 400 electoral votes, which we haven’t seen since Bill Clinton or George H.W. Bush. In addition, U.S. Senate and state legislative races are of paramount importance. So we’ve spent less […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · President · Redistricting
Sam on The New Abnormal with Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson
August 1st, 2020, 9:19am by Sam Wang
I had a great conversation with Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson on their podcast, The New Abnormal! We talked polls, elections, and Moneyball 2020. Oh, and Senator Tammy Duckworth was the other two-thirds of their show. I guess data analytics are the vegetable course? As a Southern friend of mine says, if there’s nothing green […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Politics · President · Redistricting · Senate
New PEC feature: Redistricting Moneyball 2020
July 30th, 2020, 7:31pm by Sam Wang
(Watch our explainer video here.) The main campaign stories in 2020 are the Presidential election and the fight for control of Congress (mostly, the U.S. Senate). But lurking beneath those high-profile questions are state legislative elections, which will set the political playing field, including Congressional districting, for the next 10 years. State legislatures determine policies […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Politics · Redistricting
Moneyball politics: Florida (Part III)
July 27th, 2020, 8:19pm by Zachariah Sippy
On Friday, former Miami Heat superstar LeBron James and his newly formed voting rights organization, More Than A Vote, announced a partnership with the Florida Rights Restoration Commission (FRRC). This $100,000 campaign is part of FRRC’s larger effort to ensure that formerly incarcerated individuals will be able to vote this November. But it’s a drop […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Redistricting · Supreme Court
Representable: Helping Voters Talk To Redistricters
July 22nd, 2020, 11:41am by Sam Wang
Redistricting starts next year, once the (delayed) Census results are finalized. 26 states require that the new districts accurately reflect “communities of interest” – groups of people have similar civic interests. But currently no universal mechanism exists to discern who the communities of interest are, or where they are located. Until now!
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting
