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The Future
May 2, 2013
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Opportunities to discuss course content
• Today 11-2
• No Office Hours Tomorrow or During Finals Week
• Turn papers in by 11:59AM to Doyle 226B
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Learning Objectives
• Discuss the Electoral College and the strategy of presidential campaigns
• Identify and describe the formal and informal institutions involved in the electoral process
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Changes for the Future
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGEIt will Survive
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The Map Favors the Democrats
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District Plan
• Maine and Nebraska use this system
• Popular with the party that Controls the House of Representatives
• Could pass without an amendment
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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
• Would provide a back door to 538
• Popular after 2000
• Momentum has Slowed
• Now largely partisan
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Why No Change
• To Difficult to Amend the Constitution
• More hits than Misses
• The Fear of Unanticipated Consequences
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WHAT OF THE PRIMARIES AND CONVENTIONS
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The Republicans
• Didn’t Like their 2008 Rules
• Didn’t Like their 2012 Rules
• Will Reevaluate for 2016
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The Conventions
• The late convention is no longer a financial positive
• Low Ratings, Low Excitement
• 3 Days and earlier Dates
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Big Money
• Outcome
• Corporations have stayed quiet
• Develop new strategies
• Big $ likely to stay
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WAS 2012 PART OF A REALIGNMENT?
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Short Term Deviations
• Congressional Elections
• Weaker partisan ties
• Poor challengers
• These can result in a landslide for one party
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What is a Realignment
• A Durable shift in voting Patterns
• The New Party Kills the Old
• Majority Parties become minorities
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Who Switches in a Realignment
• Hard Cores do not switch
• Independents do
• New Voters
• Weak partisans become strong Partisans
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What Causes a Realignment
• Economic or social crisis
• Failure of the party to interpret change
• A changed electorate
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The Policy Implications
• A mandate for change
• Major New Policies
• Continued electoral success
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Options for the Losers
• Ignore the issue
• Try to absorb it
• Change
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Kinds of Realignments
• Secular Realignments- happen over time
• Regional Realignments
• Critical Elections
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Maintaining Deviating
Converting Realigning
same
change
VICTORY Defeat
Types of Election
Majority Party
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A Realigning Election
• The Actual Critical Election– 1800– 1860– 1896– 1930
• High Intensity
• High Turnout
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A Maintaining Election
• A boring election
• The party in power remains in power
• 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1960
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Deviating Election
• The Out party does well
• No shift in long term partisanship
• Caused by short-term factors
• 1912, 1916, 1952, 1956
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Converting Election
• The out party is gaining seats
• The precursor to a realignment (1930)
• The majority party keeps control.
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WAS 2008-2012 A REALIGNMENT?
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Supporters of A Realignment
• 2006
• 2008
• 2012
Does it meet the criteria?
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Criteria
1. A realignment gives rise to new dominant voter cleavage over interests ideological tendencies or issues
2. A realignment is preceded or contemporaneous with a good showing by a third party
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Criteria II
3. Voter Turnout is higher in a realigning election
4. Electoral Realignments bring about long spans of unified party control of the government
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Voter Turnout Went Down
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Criteria III
5. A realignment brings about sharp and durable changes in the electorate
Realignments do not take vacations
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A Shrinking margin of Victory
• Obama’s margin shrank from 2008 by 2%
• Only 1.3% higher than Bush’s Re-election
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The Parties have been Competitive
Republicans• President- 72, 80, 84, 88
2000, 2004 (24 years)
• Senate- 1981-1986, 1995-2006 (18 years)
• House- 1995-2006, 2011-2015- 16 years
Democrats• President- 76, 92, 96, 08,12
(20 years)
• Senate- 1973-1980, 1989-1994, 2007-2015 (22 years)
• House- 1972-1994, 2007-2010 (26 years)
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THE REPUBLICANSBad and Good News
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Bad News
• Republican Policy wars
• The lack of New Ideas
• The Demographic Bubble
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Outreach does not need to be massive
• They do not need to win all the votes
• They may benefit from an increasingly diverse democratic Party
• Can use State legislators as a farm team
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THE DEMOCRATSGood and Bad News
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The Durability of the Obama Coalition
• It weathered a slow economy
• A bad midterm
• Divisive policy initiatives
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Advantages
• Demographics
– African Americans– Latinos– Asian-Americans
• The Movement of Professionals to the Democrats
• In 2012
– Women moved Iowa and New Hampshire
– Latinos Moved Colorado, Florida and Nevada
– African Americans moved Ohio and Virginia
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Advantages
• Better Ground Game
• The Need for Big Government
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Problems
• The Absence of President Obama
• Is it a Democratic Coalition, or an Obama Coalition?
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Disadvantages: the 2014 Election
• Democrats are facing the 6-year itch
• The President’s Party Loses Seats in the midterms– A referendum on the president– A referendum on the economy
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How You Know it is going to bad
• Exposure and Coattails
• Presidential Approval
• Economic Growth
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LOOKING AHEAD TO 2016
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The Electoral College
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The Role of History
• The Third Term is increasingly rare
• 11 Wins and 12 Losses since Washington
• 2 Wins and 6 Losses in the past 100 years
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The Problem of an 8-year President
• Personal Popularity does not Carry-over to the new nominee (Unpopularity does)
• The Democratic Candidate’s Fate is Tied to Obama’s
• He/She will Held Responsible for His Policies
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Presidents Tend To Decline
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THE DEMOCRATS
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Hillary Clinton
• The Presumptive front-runner
• Personally Popular
• Does she want it?
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Joe Biden
• Has the advantage of being Vice-President
• His odds are based on the President’s final two years
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The Democratic Field: Governors
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Julian Castro
• Mayor of San Antonio
• No Statewide experience
• He has decide (soon) if his window is now
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THE REPUBLICANS
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The Republican Bench is longer, but not necessarily better
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The Governors
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The Republican Field: Congress
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The Party of Second Chances“Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line”
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Will He Get a Second Chance?