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What do Romero and McAdams disagree on?
Looking across all 1,416 votes, Romero and McAdams disagreed only 64 times Ross Romero, the Democratic leader in Utah’s Senate, announced in September that he would run for Salt Lake County mayor.A few weeks later Ben McAdams, Romero’s Democratic colleague … Continue reading
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Tagged cage match, ideology, legislature, rankings, representation, roll call votes, salt lake county
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Why Mitt Romney is not the inevitable nominee
Romney is no more “inevitable” than Howard Dean in 2004 or Hillary Clinton in 2008. Mitt Romney has polled consistently with around 20% support for months. Meanwhile, we’ve seen a variety of opponents rise rapidly than fall. First it was … Continue reading
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Tagged campaigns, mitt romney, nominations, polls, presidential election, rick perry
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Do Wimmer and Sandstrom agree on everything?
Wimmer and Sandstrom have voted against each other 257 times We now have two Republican members of the state legislature planning to run against each other in the newly-created 4th Congressional district. It’s been clear for months that Carl Wimmer … Continue reading
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Tagged absenteeism, cage match, grama, ideology, immigration, legislature, patrick henry caucus, rankings, representation, roll call votes
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Do Wimmer and Sandstrom agree on everything?
A new report on Utah’s nominating system
Do Utah’s election laws and practices allow “full opportunity” for people to become candidates and for “voters to express their choice?” This is a guest post by Morgan Lyon Cotti, Senior Research Analyst at the Utah Foundation. Utah Foundation released … Continue reading
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Tagged delegates, election administration, nominations, representation, republic, turnout, utah foundation, voting
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A new report on Utah’s nominating system
Are legislators faithful to their constituents?
The correlation between district partisanship and legislator ideology is not perfect, but it is nevertheless strongly positive. This analysis was performed by Robert Richards, a student research fellow at BYU’s Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, in collaboration … Continue reading
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Tagged ideology, legislature, nominate, representation, republic, roll call votes, single member districts, student research
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Are legislators faithful to their constituents?
The Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index
The following is a guest post sent in by Morgan Lyon Cotti, Senior Research Analyst at the Utah Foundation. It is often said that Utahns enjoy a high quality of life, and many people live here their entire lives. Those … Continue reading
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Tagged congress, education, quality of life, utah foundation
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The Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index
Does a candidate’s testosterone level affect voters?
Yesterday, science writers across the nation reported on a fascinating new study: Fatherhood causes a drop in testosterone level. Researchers measured testosterone in a bunch of young guys (none of whom were fathers yet), then measured it again several years. … Continue reading
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Tagged biology and politics, presidential election, psychology
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Does a candidate’s testosterone level affect voters?
How different are Romney and Perry ideologically?
Rick Perry is slightly to the right of Mitt Romney, but only slightly. Political scientists have worked for years to find ways of measuring politicians’ ideology. By far, the best method we presently have is known as NOMINATE (and its … Continue reading
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Tagged ideology, jon huntsman, measurement, mitt romney, nominate, presidential election, rick perry
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Children and Dead People Are NOT Voting in Utah.
It’s pretty clear that Utah election administration doesn’t really look like Chicago Machine Politics in the 1950s no matter how many database oddities we might find. In a blog post Monday, my colleague Adam Brown analyzed the publicly available Utah … Continue reading
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Tagged election administration, voter registration, voting
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Children and Dead People Are NOT Voting in Utah.
Word from the Salt Lake clerk…
These dates are not errors but are rather a means of preserving the right to vote for our senior voters. In response to today’s posts, an explanation from Salt Lake officials is here. Copy and paste: The birthdates from the … Continue reading