Introduction

Articles in the same Issue

2. Introduction
3. If I Could Hold a Seminar for Political Journalists…
4. Sorting the American States into Red and Blue: Culture, Economics, and the 2012 US Presidential Election in Historical Context
5. The Miserable Presidential Election of 2012: A First Party-Term Incumbent Survives
6. The Presidential Election of 2012 by the Numbers and in Historical Perspective
7. Campaign Effects and Dynamics in the 2012 Election
8. How the Romney Campaign Blew it
9. Negative, Angry, and Ubiquitous: Political Advertising in 2012
10. Interest Groups in Electoral Politics: 2012 in Context
11. Barking Louder: Interest Groups in the 2012 Election
12. Why Super PACs: How the American Party System Outgrew the Campaign Finance System
13. Super PACs and the 2012 Elections
14. The Primary End Game and General Election Outcomes: Are they Connected?
15. Red State/Blue State Divisions in the 2012 Presidential Election
16. The Roberts Court in an Era of Polarized Politics