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This book adopts a regional approach to understanding 2024 presidential election outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative analysis examines electoral outcomes in the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast, enriching contextual understandings of the national results and illuminating nuances in public opinion, voter behavior, and party politics. From this foundation, the book aspires to be the most comprehensive assessment of prominent issues in the 2024 campaign. Scholars examine seven key issues to understand how these issues affected the 2024 campaign and how the campaign affected public opinion and policymaking toward these issues.
Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Unusual and Unpredictable 2024 Presidential Election.- Chapter 2: How Trump Won The United States of Pennsylvania'.- Chapter 3: The Blue Wall Crumbles in Michigan and Wisconsin.- Chapter 4: North Carolina s Bifurcated Politics.- Chapter 5: Southern Suprises: Arizona and Georgia Swing Back.- Chapter 6: Receding Democratic Support in Nevada.- Chapter 7: New England Culture and Trump s Failed Rebound.- Chapter 8: Campaign Narratives, Election Denial and Trump s 2024 Election.- Chapter 9: The Battle to Become the Oldest President Ever.- Chapter 10: Electing a President in the Age of Lawfare .- Chapter 11: New Evidence that Concerns of Government Overreach and Racial Animus Reshaped the Republican Party and Fueled Trump s Electoral Appeal.- Chapter 12: How the Economy Decided the Election.- Chapter 13: The Unexpectedly Modest Role of Foreign Policy in the 2024 Presidential Election.- Chapter 14: Papa Don t Preach: Abortion in the 2024 Election.- Chapter 15: Biden Revolutionizes America s Climate Response & Climate Change Largely Disappears in the 2024 Campaign.- Chapter 16: The End of Democratic Dominance in Presidential Elections.
About the author
Luke Perry is Distinguished Professor of political science at Utica University and Director of the Utica University Center of Public Affairs and Election Research. Perry is Editor of The 2020 Presidential Election: Key Issues and Regional Dynamics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and The 2020 Democratic Primary: Key Developments, Dynamics and Lessons for 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), as well as author of Donald Trump and the 2018 Midterm Battle for Central New York (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Religious Responses to Marriage Equality (2018), Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the 2012 Election (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and coauthor of Mormons in American Politics; From Persecution to Power (2012).
Summary
This book adopts a regional approach to understanding 2024 presidential election outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative analysis examines electoral outcomes in the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast, enriching contextual understandings of the national results and illuminating nuances in public opinion, voter behavior, and party politics. From this foundation, the book aspires to be the most comprehensive assessment of prominent issues in the 2024 campaign. Scholars examine seven key issues to understand how these issues affected the 2024 campaign and how the campaign affected public opinion and policymaking toward these issues.
Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
