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...that featured either a black or female candidate. Using three pre-election polls per candidate, Hopkins found that the Bradley effect was last seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In recent years, he said, the effect has gone away. “In the last ten years of elections, I can’t find any evidence that there’s a systematic difference in how candidates poll and how they perform in the election itself,” Hopkins said. He added that he does not anticipate that there will be a significant Bradley effect...
...registration drives but a net increase in population, has shown a net loss of 100,000 voters since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law pointed out a case where a Mississippi voting official accidentally erased the records of ten thousand voters from her home computer. Whether political motivation was involved or not is difficult to ascertain, mostly because standards are so unclear...
...having conquered one challenge, Tsim is confronted with another: though she has long harbored a love for haute couture and larger-than-life fashion, Tsim admits she hasn’t sewn since she was ten. “It’s a fun hobby, I doodle dresses. I never sew,” she says...
...Roughly 60 Harvard undergraduates work together to provide this tuition-free program for an average of 100 students at the Cambridge public schools ever year. The program—operating on an annual budget in the ten thousands—receives the bulk of its funding from its alumni, and CityStep organizes several fundraisers during the school year, such as the CityStep Ball to be held this year...
Hawaii's first Constitutional Convention was organized in 1968 to correct problems with state legislative voting districts - and ended up giving public workers the right to strike. Ten years later, the islands' second ConCon began with no particular agenda, just a feeling in the post-Watergate era that Hawaii's government needed to be more accountable to its people. Nevertheless, it resulted in 34 separate amendments - more than 1,000 individual changes to Hawaii's state constitution - that included the addition of the untranslated phrase, "Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono" in the constitution's preamble...