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Welcome to “After the Jump”!

January 13, 2009

Dear readers:
We are thrilled to upgrade our Election 2008 blog into a comprehensive Chronicle news blog, featuring daily posts on news of Duke, Durham and beyond. The title, “After the Jump,” alludes to when an article “jumps” to a different page from the one on which it originally started, thereby linking to the rest of [...]

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Obama may pick up another electoral vote

November 12, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama may add one more electoral vote to his tally, raising the total to 365, once the counting concludes in Nebraska, the New York Times reports. Though Sen. John McCain won the state with 57% of the vote, Obama is currently leading in the area around Omaha. Nebraska, like New Hampshire, allocates its [...]

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Who will the Republicans nominate in 2012?

November 10, 2008

This was a topic of significant discussion at the N.C. GOP Victory 2008 Election Night Party in Raleigh after an Obama victory began to look inevitable. Some of the names that were thrown around:
1. Gov. Sarah Palin, Alaska —The conservative base loves her. McCain called her “one of the best campaigners I’ve ever seen” in [...]

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Reflections on an Historic Election

November 10, 2008

Almost exactly a year ago, a young, charismatic Senator from Illinois came to North Carolina for the first time, right here in Durham. Although certainly not unknown, he was only one in a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. Catapulted to fame by a stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, many nevertheless believed that his [...]

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Non-linear mapping of U.S. election results

November 10, 2008

Pretty interesting stuff out of the University of Michigan
This is the 2008 electoral map:

This is the map weighted by population:

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Obama win a boon for gun sales

November 8, 2008

The specter of an Obama presidency has led to good business for one retail category: gun shops.  As the (Raleigh) News & Observer reports, people have been flocking to gun shops to purchase assault rifles, high capacity magazines and other items they think the Democrats might ban.
As Jay Price reports:
Barack Obama said he would improve [...]

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Youth vote key to Obama’s N.C. win

November 7, 2008

As Naureen Khan reported in today’s Chronicle, Barack Obama won North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes by the slimmest of margins.  
Before the election, The Chronicle’s Chrissy DiNicola wrote about the likely effects of the youth vote on the presidential race.  Now, as reporters analyze the polling data, it has become clear that the youth vote [...]

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Munger gets wet

November 6, 2008

Mike Munger, chair of the political science department, who ran for governor as a Libertarian candidate, was featured in a Dukenews video posted today in which he dives into the ocean. Wait, allow me to repeat that: Munger, dressed in a tweed suit and tie, takes a head-on dive into the salty waters of the [...]

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