A "permanent" republican house? Patterns of voter performance and the persistence of house control

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-20

  Irwin, Lew ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 14844339107     PISSN: 15408884     EISSN: 15408884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1540-8884.1024     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. James E. Campbell, Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections, Columbus: Ohio State Press, 1996.
2. Ibid, 122-123.
3. Andrew Hacker, Congressional Districting: The Issue of Equal Representation, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1963, 49.
4. All 12 elections had 435 districts except for the 1960 election, which had 437 due to the interim representatives assigned to Hawaii and Alaska. Additionally, the early elections include the "at-large" and "multiple-member" districts that were eventually eliminated by the Supreme Court rulings of the mid-1960s. Vote totals from the District of Columbia are not represented here, as they do not factor into control of the House. The votes of the slate of electors from Alabama in 1960 and 1964 are treated as Democratic votes. Finally, a few southern states did not record the number of votes cast in unopposed elections in a handful of races. In each of these cases, 1 took the average vote totals from the other districts in those states and used that average as an estimate of the votes cast for the Democratic candidates in those cases.
5. The congressional vote distributions were tabulated from various editions of Richard M Scammon, et al, America Votes, Washington: Congressional Quarterly . The presidential vote distributions were tabulated from various editions of Michael Barone, et al, Almanac of American Politics, Washington: National Journal.
6. The congressional vote distributions were tabulated from various editions of Richard M Scammon, et al, America Votes, Washington: Congressional Quarterly . The presidential vote distributions were tabulated from various editions of Michael Barone, et al, Almanac of American Politics, Washington: National Journal.
7. Michael Barone, et al, The Almanac of American Politics, 2002 and 2004, Washington: National Journal, 2001 and 2003, respectively.
8. Norman Ornstein, et al, Vital Statistics on Congress, 1995-1996. Washington: AEI, 1996, 60; and Michael Barone, et al, The Almanac of American Politics, various years.
9. Norman Ornstein, et al, Vital Statistics on Congress, 1995-1996. Washington: AEI, 1996, 60; and Michael Barone, et al, The Almanac of American Politics, various years.