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Antisemitic Attitudes among Young Black and Hispanic Americans
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Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum
Abstract Concern about antisemitism in the U.S. has grown following recent rises in deadly assaults, vandalism, and harassment. Public accounts of antisemitism have focused on both the ideological right and left, suggesting a “horseshoe theory” in which the far left and the far right hold a common set of anti-Jewish prejudicial attitudes that distinguish them from the ideological center. However, there is little quantitative research evaluating left-wing versus right-wing antisemitism.
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum
Introduction Antisemitism has become a growing concern in the United States. Antisemitic hate crimes are frequent (Feinberg 2020). Perceived concerns about the seriousness of antisemitism are high (Smith and Schapiro 2019). According to a 2020 poll, 62% of Americans and 88% of Jewish Americans consider antisemitism a problem.
Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum
Introduction Antisemitism has become a growing concern in the United States. Antisemitic hate crimes are frequent (Feinberg 2020). Perceived concerns about the seriousness of antisemitism are high (Smith and Schapiro 2019). According to a 2020 poll, 62% of Americans and 88% of Jewish Americans consider antisemitism a problem.
Redistricting
Every decade, states and local governments redraw voting districts across the country to take into account changes over the preceding decade. Done right, this process ensures that districts have equal populations and that legislative bodies are, in the words of John Adams, “a miniature” of the people as a whole.
Opinion | America’s Warped Elections (Published 2018)
Many Democratic voters and activists are giddy about their party’s chances of retaking the House in 2018. Savoring surprise victories in Alabama, Pennsylvania and Virginia, they have visions of a blue wave election. If political history were the only guide, they would be right. Polls in recent days have shown Democrats with around a 9-point average lead on the generic congressional ballot, which asks Americans which party they’ll vote for in the coming election.
Extreme Gerrymandering & the 2018 Midterm
Many Democrats are optimistic about their chances of winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. But in a new report, we measured how much harder partisan gerrymandering will make it for Democrats to win seats — and found that even a blue wave election akin to 2006 would be far from enough.
Does the anti-gerrymandering campaign threaten minority voting rights?
When Pennsylvania Democrats went to the Supreme Court in 2004 to ask that Pennsylvania’s GOP-drawn congressional map be struck down as an unfair partisan gerrymander, they drew opposition from an unexpected source: fellow Democrats.
Ranking Texas gerrymanders
In 2003, Texas House Democrats fled to Ardmore, Oklahoma for four days in order to scuttle Republican plans to replace the state’s court-drawn congressional map with one of their own. A few months later, Senate Democrats followed suit, spending 46 days in Albuquerque to try to circumvent a special session on redistricting.
Extreme Maps
Using data from the 2012, 2014, and 2016 election cycles, Extreme Maps finds that partisan bias resulting largely from the worst gerrymandering abuses in just a few battleground states provides Republicans a durable advantage of 16–17 seats in the current Congress, representing a significant portion of the 24 seats Democrats would need to gain control of the House in 2020.
Now Trending: #CityHall on Social Media
In the past decade, Americans’ social media usage has increased nearly tenfold, with Pew Research estimating that 65% of all adults are on at least one social media platform. We now use social media for everything from keeping up with friends’ major life updates to sharing passing thoughts, and it has become a primary method of communication for many of us. Social media’s growth also represents a unique and important civic engagement opportunity for cities that goes beyond basic advertising.
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