Last week was “Red State, Blue State” (“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” week in The Politics of Inequality class. Here are a few readings/listenings that bring things up to the present day:
- The This American Life take on Red State Blue State
- Peter Kelner (YouGov) on “How Obama won“
- Gabriel Lenz (Berkeley) answering whether “Mitt Romney’s Conservative Shift Hurt or Help Him in the General Election?“
- Simon Jackman (Stanford) on How Obama won: the swing state swings“
- Andrew Gelman (Columbia) saying that “richer people continue to vote Republican“
- Andrew Gelman saying that “The Republicans are the party of the middle class and rich; the Democrats are the party of the poor, middle-class, and rich“
- Andrew Gelman and Avi Feller with “Red-blue maps for different slices of the population“
- Robert Vanderbei (Princeton) with 3D maps of vote choice
Timothy Hicks 