{"id":2450,"date":"2016-02-26T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","slug":"usa-primaries-useful-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/02\/26\/usa-primaries-useful-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Primaries &#8211; Useful resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/votesmart.org\/education\/presidential-primary#.Vs7G0-ahkfA\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">What is a primary?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Apparently many Americans are also unclear!\u00a0 As a result, a crowdsourcing project to share information has been launched by the Annenberg Center on Communication, Leadership &amp; Policy at the University of South California; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/communicationleadership.usc.edu\/news\/the-project-on-presidential-primaries\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Project on Presidential Primaries: RoadMap to Nomination 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/elections\/2016\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">RealClear Politics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> has excellent news and video coverage of the polls and events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2016-endorsement-primary\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">The Fivethirtyeight project<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">is trying to predict who will receive the party nominations.\u00a0 Its calculations are based on the book \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Party-Decides-Presidential-Nominations-American\/dp\/0226112373\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">The Party Decides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u201d (2008), where\u00a0 political scientists Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel and John Zaller evaluated data on endorsements made in presidential nomination contests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a primary? find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart. Apparently many Americans are also unclear!\u00a0 As a result, a crowdsourcing project to share information has been launched by the Annenberg Center on Communication, Leadership &amp; Policy at the University of South California; Project on Presidential Primaries: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[41,115,95],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}