- How Groups Voted in 2012 http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_12.html 8 comments politics
- A group of independent researchers caught a pattern of apparent vote flipping during the 2012 Republican primaries that consistently favored Mitt Romney http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/hl1210/s00105/rigged-elections-for-romney-michael-collins.htm 85 comments politics
- Trump’s Uphill Fight: The States Where The White Population Has Declined The Most. Hypothetically, if 2012 rates of turnout and support by group were to remain constant, Democrats’ popular vote advantage would swell to 5.1 percentage points in 2016 thanks to demographic shifts alone. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-uphill-fight-the-states-where-the-white-population-has-declined-the-most/ 16 comments politics
- Throughout the 2012 election, dark money groups spent $300 million influencing your vote. Out of the top 50 biggest outside spenders, 15 of them were 501(c)(4) nonprofits. http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/21/the-political-spending-of-501c4-nonprofits-in-the-2012-election/ 3 comments politics
- On the May 29, 2012 episode of the Steven Colbert show, Steven Colbert likens 9/11 Truthers to "alien abductees", "doomsday preppers" and "sasquatch hunters", while compiling a comedy-list of groups to get Mitt Romney from 43.6% to 50.1% of the US popular vote. (Romney sketch begins at 9:45) http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-may-29-2012-charlize-theron 3 comments politics
- Silicon Valley gives conservative Christians a boost: A group of venture capitalists is backing United in Purpose, an ambitious project that seeks to affect the 2012 election by registering 5 million new conservative Christians to vote. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-evangelical-outreach-20110916,0,7594171.story 3 comments politics
- Less than a year before the 2012 presidential voting begins, Republican legislatures and governors across the country are rewriting voting laws to make it much harder for the young, the poor and African-Americans — groups that typically vote Democratic — to cast a ballot. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/opinion/27wed1.html?_r=1&hp 10 comments politics