The Roads to Congress 2020: Campaigning in the Era of Trump and COVID-19

The Roads to Congress 2020: Campaigning in the Era of Trump and COVID-19 – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030825201,3030825205,9783030825218, 3030825213

Product detail:

• ISBN 10: 3030825213
• ISBN 13: 9783030825218
• Author: Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin, Walter Clark Wilson

This book analyzes changes to campaigning and voting in the United States in 2020. The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 upended traditional campaign strategies, posed unprecedented challenges to candidates, and possessed the potential to fundamentally alter how campaigns think about running for office. At the same time, the Trump administration’s divisive handling of twin crises stemming from the pandemic and rising racial tensions loomed over congressional races as the most disruptive election cycle in living memory. The ramifications of the 2020 congressional elections for the direction of public policy in America―and perhaps for American democracy itself―cannot be overstated. The Roads to Congress 2020 examines key House and Senate campaigns, candidates, and controversies in the 2020 election to reveal what accounts for the outcomes and point the way to America’s political future.

Table of contents:

1. Part I. Congressional Campaign and Election Trends
2. 1. The 2020 Elections Overview: A Campaign Cycle Like No Other
3. 2. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the 2020 Elections
4. 3. Stress Test: Three Case Studies on Vote by Mail During a Global Pandemic
5. 4. Getting Good and Mad: Exploring the Use of Anger on Twitter by Female Candidates in 2020
6. Part II. U.S. House of Representatives Case Studies
7. 5. Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts: Bumpy Roads to Reelection and Defeat
8. 6. Florida’s 26th and 27th Congressional Districts: No Socialists, No Communists, No Way
9. 7. New York’s 22nd Congressional District: Brindisi V. Tenney: Round Two
10. 8. Oklahoma’s District 5th Congressional Race: Deep Red Mobilization Defeats the Blue Wave Incumbent
11. 9. Texas’s 21st–24th Congressional Districts: Texas Blues: Democrats’ Bid to Flip Texas Falls Short
12. 10. Virginia’s 7th Congressional District: Birth of a Bellwether
13. Part III. U.S. Senate Case Studies
14. 11. Alabama U.S. Senate Race: A Referendum on the Trump Presidency
15. 12. Arizona U.S. Senate Race: McSally vs. Kelly—Veteran vs. Veteran, A Fight to the End
16. 13. Iowa U.S. Senate Campaign: Confirmation of Party Realignment in the Hawkeye State
17. 14. Kansas U.S. Senate Campaign: An Open Seat, But Not Enough of an Opening for Democrats
18. 15. Maine U.S. Senate Race: Independent-Minded Republican Senator Susan Collins Retains Her Seat with Crossover Appeal
19. Part IV. Roads Ahead
20. 16. American Elections at a Crossroads: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahe

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