2. How does the electoral college influence election strategy, and why does it continue to exist today?
3. What factors influence re-election rates in the House and the Senate?
3. What factors influence re-election rates in the House and the Senate?
- Simulation: Redistricting and Gerrymandering
- How do state parties use the redistricting process to engage in gerrymandering?
- Complete Mission 2: Basic at The Redistricting Game
- Analysis: Incumbency Advantage in Congress (EQ #3)
- How many incumbents in California have lost re-election in 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010?
- How do the average re-election rates compare between the House and the Senate?
- House = 90% re-election rate
- Senate = 80% re-election rate
- What are the causes of incumbency advantage?
- Name recognition
- Fundraising (OpenSecrets.org)
- Experience
- Constituent Service
- Franking mail
- Redistricting and gerrymandering
- Check out this CNN story on gerrymandering
- FYI: CA passed Prop 11 in 2008 to create the CA Citizens Redistricting Commission
- Read this story on CA House races in 2012
- Analysis: The Electoral College (EQ #2)
- How does the electoral college work? (Not iPad compatible)
- Who exactly is in the electoral college?
- Why do we still have it?
- Requires constitutional amendment
- Favors battleground/swing/toss-up states
- Tradition
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