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