Election 2012 News Site Covers the Races
March 1, 2012
Website gathers
research and opinions of USC professors who study issues related to
national and local races
USC Election 2012 covers this year’s pivotal presidential election, as well as state races, ballot initiatives and more. This online resource contains unique political research and opinion from USC professors that can’t be found anywhere else, such as:
• Obama & The Return of the Young Voter – Morley Winograd of the USC Annenberg School finds that the “established conservative power structure has basically rejected millennial ideas of conservatism.”
• The Fight for the Base – Political Science Professor Darry Sragow of the USC Dornsife College sees socially conservative voters possibly damaging the GOP, by not taking into account Mitt Romney's strength against President Obama. “Republican registration is down to just over 30 percent, because the social conservatives are driving more moderate voters out of the party in their suicidal quest for ideological purity,” he said.
• Partisanship Broken Down – USC psychologist Jesse Graham studies moral ideals held by conservatives and liberal politicians. One of the challenges 2012 Republican candidates face is trying to appeal to both the base and to moderates. “Values speak much more powerfully than compromises,” Graham says.
Election 2012 was created in the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election and has been published between elections under the name Politics and Society, providing an extensive archive of articles and story ideas.
The Website is also the place to learn the latest results of the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll, a real-time window into the minds of California voters. The project is a series of statewide public opinion polls conducted at regular intervals in California. The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll is one of the largest polls of registered voters in the state.
Visit election2012.usc.edu, and subscribe to the email newsletter to have new stories delivered as soon as they’re published. Or follow along on Twitter at @USCElection2012 and Facebook.
Election 2012 has been overseen from the beginning by Senior Online News Editor Eliza Gallo, formerly a journalist at Hearst, Condé Nast and Variety Group magazines. To learn more about the research and faculty featured in Election 2012, contact Gallo at (213) 821-2391 or egallo@usc.edu.
Reporters and op-ed editors interested in political commentary may also want to visit ThinkUSC, the university’s new op-ed site, which gathers published commentaries from USC faculty.
Another resource for media seeking experts on specific topics is the searchable Election 2012 Experts Directory, composed of USC professors who have agreed to be responsive to reporters and ready to share their expertise with journalists — on topics ranging from campaign strategy to voter demographics to transportation policy.
Contact: Eddie North-Hager at (213) 740-9335 or edwardnh@usc.edu
USC Election 2012 covers this year’s pivotal presidential election, as well as state races, ballot initiatives and more. This online resource contains unique political research and opinion from USC professors that can’t be found anywhere else, such as:
• Obama & The Return of the Young Voter – Morley Winograd of the USC Annenberg School finds that the “established conservative power structure has basically rejected millennial ideas of conservatism.”
• The Fight for the Base – Political Science Professor Darry Sragow of the USC Dornsife College sees socially conservative voters possibly damaging the GOP, by not taking into account Mitt Romney's strength against President Obama. “Republican registration is down to just over 30 percent, because the social conservatives are driving more moderate voters out of the party in their suicidal quest for ideological purity,” he said.
• Partisanship Broken Down – USC psychologist Jesse Graham studies moral ideals held by conservatives and liberal politicians. One of the challenges 2012 Republican candidates face is trying to appeal to both the base and to moderates. “Values speak much more powerfully than compromises,” Graham says.
Election 2012 was created in the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election and has been published between elections under the name Politics and Society, providing an extensive archive of articles and story ideas.
The Website is also the place to learn the latest results of the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll, a real-time window into the minds of California voters. The project is a series of statewide public opinion polls conducted at regular intervals in California. The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll is one of the largest polls of registered voters in the state.
Visit election2012.usc.edu, and subscribe to the email newsletter to have new stories delivered as soon as they’re published. Or follow along on Twitter at @USCElection2012 and Facebook.
Election 2012 has been overseen from the beginning by Senior Online News Editor Eliza Gallo, formerly a journalist at Hearst, Condé Nast and Variety Group magazines. To learn more about the research and faculty featured in Election 2012, contact Gallo at (213) 821-2391 or egallo@usc.edu.
Reporters and op-ed editors interested in political commentary may also want to visit ThinkUSC, the university’s new op-ed site, which gathers published commentaries from USC faculty.
Another resource for media seeking experts on specific topics is the searchable Election 2012 Experts Directory, composed of USC professors who have agreed to be responsive to reporters and ready to share their expertise with journalists — on topics ranging from campaign strategy to voter demographics to transportation policy.
Contact: Eddie North-Hager at (213) 740-9335 or edwardnh@usc.edu
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