FDU Campaigns and Elections

A pedagogical class blog run by the students of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Campaigns and Elections course. The students make use of modern research in political science and past elections to understand what's going on in the 2008 elections.

Friday, May 16, 2008

1952 Primary v. 2008 Primary

The 2008 election is the first election since 1952 that neither the sitting President nor sitting Vice President is in the general election...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Last Blog post: McCain vs Obama

My prediction for the remainder of the 2008 presidential campaign is that the race will be between John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D). McC...

Elections with Recessions

With every election in history there are major issues to be discussed. Those issues involving war, foreign trade, and economy could be best...

1968 and 2008

1968 and the current election of 2008 have many similarities which lead me to believe it is the most similar election. “Nixon, Humphrey ...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Let No-One Complain of Good Competition

Although this years election so far has been tough, hard fought and down to the nail for the Democrats, let no one utter a word of complaint...

1972 and 2008

The 1972 election was waged on the issue of the Vietnam War, and radicalism. The 2008 election is based on the Iraq War, economy, and socia...

Monday, May 12, 2008

'92 vs. '08

The elections of 1992 and 2008 have a lot in common with each other when it comes to several different subjects. The first of which is like ...

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