Questions tagged [presidential-election]
For questions regarding the process by which a person attains the role of president over a governing body or country.
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Is there any modeling on who would be the Condorcet winner in the French Presidential election?
The French Presidential elections use FPTP with a run off round, so directly determining the Condorcet winner is obviously impossible. But I wonder if pollsters have done any modeling to determine the ...
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Can a state appoint Presidential electors from out-of-state to get around the difficulty of Presidents and VP's being from the same state?
The twelfth amendment to the United States constitution reads:
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot
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Who were Cathy Brown and Sabrina Allen (independent candidates in 2000 US presidential election)?
Select 2000 from results and then click more
Brown and Allen got 1,606 votes. They had ballot access in a single state - Tennessee.
For context, the Prohibition party got 208 - a fringe but well-known ...
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Are there any studies/ data sources into whether Republicans or Democrats suffer the most under the presence of 3rd parties?
I am looking to explore the impact of 3rd parties on mainstream political parties in the United States. Not necessarily at the federal level but at state level too, and across any branch of the ...
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Why are campaign budgets treated as important?
Plenty of research shows that campaign spending makes very little difference. See this article on FiveThirtyEight, for example.
So why does so much news reporting, like this, focus on that topic as ...
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Is the National Front's presidential election chances dependent on which party opposes it in the run-off?
In the 2002 French presidential election, Jacques Chirac from the centre-right Rally for the Republic won with a large margin against Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front.
I have a suspicion that ...
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How did California voters by age group vote in the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election?
Is there information on how voters of different age groups in California voted in the 1984 election? For example, what percent of the 18-24 vote in California went to either Reagan or Mondale? Or ...
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How can I access exit polls by state for the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election?
Even though the 1984 presidential election was a landslide, and there's a national exit poll available, I want to see if there were any differences in exit polls by state. For example, an exit poll ...
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Will there be any televised first-round presidential debates in France during the "equal airtime" period that starts on 28 March 2022?
The rule in France in 2022 is that the media must treat verified candidates for the presidency "equitably" until 28 March, and from then on it must treat them "equally". So before ...
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Is Berlusconi being used as a scarecrow to make other presidential candidates more acceptable in Italy?
If you type in a search engine "Berlusconi presidential candidate" or "Draghi presidential candidate" you will find a lot of references to the upcoming presidential elections in ...
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Why are pre-election polls even less accurate on 2020 Presidential election comparing to 2016?
Whatever the final outcome of 2020 presidential election would be, it seems that pre-election polls were wrong about Trump — twice in a row and twice as much (circa 8pp) comparing to 2016 forecasts (...
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Can the imprisoned Egypt presidential candidate Ahmed Konsowa be on the ballot? What is the law applying to him?
I found a tweet by POMED (Project on Middle East Democracy) that shares an image whose title is:
Dropping like flies: Sisi's purge of potential candidates in Egypt's presidential "election":...
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Is there a tendency for presidents to come from outside of "big politics" in recent years?
According to this article which is based on this Wikipedia article
Donald Trump has never been elected to public office (a big
disqualifier in American politics), never been appointed to a
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Statistics on vote by mail in the US presidential elections
I am looking for statistics regarding vote by mail. I am primarily interested in the recent US presidential election of 2016, and I know not all results are in yet, but I am also looking for the same ...
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What projections are there, if any, of the final margin of the election?
At this point, Biden is the president-elect, with every major network including Fox having called the election in his favor, and with a probable end result of 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump. ...
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