Shifting Voter Demographics
This was a presentation of the research brief The Shifting Suburbs: Changes in the Nation’s Political Fulcrum from American Communities Project of the American University School of Public Affairs. The event in Katzen Theater was the first in a series from the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research and the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
Panelists talked about population and demographic shifts in America’s suburbs and how this would affect future elections in America. They us… read more
Panelists talked about population and demographic shifts in America’s suburbs and how this would affect future elections in America. They used slides to discuss the role demographics played in President Obama’s 2012 win over Republican nominee Mitt Romney and focused on Loudoun County as an example of how demographic shifts might favor the Democrats in the upcoming gubernatorial election in Virginia. Topics included how politial discourse had been fragmented.
This was a presentation of the research brief The Shifting Suburbs: Changes in the Nation’s Political Fulcrum from American Communities Project of the American University School of Public Affairs. The event in Katzen Theater was the first in a series from the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research and the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. close
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John J. Kornacki Assistant Director American University->Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research
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