Parties and the Future

Parties, campaigns, and "big data"

The economy

• Unemployment and labor force participation
• Recovery

Public opinion

• Approval of the president
• Attitudes toward ACA

Money

• Dark money
• The red shift

House Elections

• Gerrymandering:  intentional and unintentional
• Generic vote -- see Pew report

Senate Elections

• The peculiar cycle of Senate elections
• Republicans threw away seats in 2010 and 2012
• This time, they might not.

California

• Top two and turnout
• Donnelly
• An double-edged endorsement

Correspondents Dinner with the Veep and VP

Campaign Finance Hypocrisy

Going back to campaign finance, this article in Politico is about how Democrat donors are as secretive as Republican donors. The author writes that the Democrat attack on the Koch brothers is hypocritical because many of its donors are also shrouded in mystery.