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Landslide: The "Obama Surge" And The Future Of California Politics, Corey Cook, David Latterman
Landslide: The "Obama Surge" And The Future Of California Politics, Corey Cook, David Latterman
Corey Cook
The 2008 presidential election in California resulted in a landslide of historic proportions. Barack Obama's victory, fueled as it was by 2.1 million first-time voters, seemingly portends a realignment in California. At the same time, outside the presidential election, the results in 2008 were well within the norms of California politics. Utilizing an original dataset, we unravel this conundrum by examining whether these "surge voters" were substantially different from habitual voters, whether they have stayed engaged in electoral politics, and what might that tell us about the future partisan and political alignment in California?
White Nationalism, Black Interests, And Contemporary American Politics, Corey Cook
White Nationalism, Black Interests, And Contemporary American Politics, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
No abstract provided.
Firsts: The Election Of Asian American Mayors In Oakland And San Francisco, Corey Cook
Firsts: The Election Of Asian American Mayors In Oakland And San Francisco, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
This paper utilizes an original dataset to comparatively analyze the 2010 mayoral election in Oakland and 2011 mayoral election in San Francisco. The paper considers the unique political context in each city and analyzes individual ranked choice ballots to draw inferences about the nature of mayoral coalitions in these neighboring Bay Area cities.
Constructing A Moderate Multiracial Coalition In "America's Most Diverse City": Kevin Johnson And Coalition Politics In Sacramento, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
Purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the growing academic literature on "post-racial" African American leadership by exploring the election and reelection of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Johnson is emblematic of the current generation of young African American leaders: politically moderate, less likely to employ overt racial appeals, and able to assemble a multiethnic political coalition. Design/methodology/approach - This chapter utilizes a combination of semi-structured interviews and multivariate quantitative analysis of an original dataset to reveal both the diversity of the Johnson coalition and the high support for Johnson's candidacy in Sacramento's African American community. Findings …
Rules Of The Electoral Game: Playing With Loaded Dice, Corey Cook
Rules Of The Electoral Game: Playing With Loaded Dice, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
No abstract provided.
San Benito County And California's Geopolitical Fault Lines, Corey Cook, David Latterman
San Benito County And California's Geopolitical Fault Lines, Corey Cook, David Latterman
Corey Cook
Over the past decade San Benito County has emerged as California's textbook bellwether county, narrowly mirroring statewide election results on ballot measures and statewide candidate races. San Benito's uncanny predictive power suggests the importance of California emerging political geography as it straddles the major political fault lines of the state. Neither northern nor southern, neither coastal nor inland, and neither urban nor rural, San Benito illustrates the broad geographic forces shaping contemporary California politics.