Hispanics gave him about 38percentt of their vote, according to a study of election districts conducted yesterday by John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
A new study of election data from 1972 to 2008 by two political scientists, Jan Leighley of American University and Jonathan Nagler of New York University, unearthed two striking findings about Americans and redistribution.
People sometimes make the mistake of trying to justify the study of elections and voting on the basis that they are an important part of democracy.
National issues matter less in congressional races than in Presidential ones, but they're still important, and, in a study of elections from 1916 to 1994, the political scientists Kevin Grier and Joseph McGarrity showed that the state of the economy has a major impact on the outcome of congressional elections.
Most studies of moderate inflation find that its costs are quite small, but a study of elections in thirteen European countries from the nineteen-sixties to the nineties found that voters were far more likely to toss out politicians when inflation rose than when unemployment did.
While most of America sees the media (because Fox tells them to do so) as too liberal and biased towards Hillary, reality clearly shown in a recent Harvard University study of election-year news coverage shows the opposite.
In a 2013 study of elections in Australia, Anthony Fowler of the government department at Harvard University observed an advantage for leftist parties in elections with mandatory voting.
Dr. Lichtman, who was hired in mid-April by the Democrats to rebut the Republican claims, told the judges that his studies of election results in scores of legislative contests in the 1990's found that whites now readily vote for black and Hispanic candidates and in many cases ensure their victories.
That's the number--5,901,814 to be exact--of voters that his study of U.S. Election Assistance Commission records show were illegally denied their ballot in the 2008 election.
An academic study of that election was called "Labour's last chance?", although without making clear whether the authors thought Labour had already blown its last chance, or had one more.
"I don't think they actually counted the votes, though that's hard to prove," said Ali Ansari, a professor at the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and one of the authors of a study of the election results issued by Chatham House, a London-based research group.
