The party that spends the most in a non-presidential congressional election gains the most seats in Congress. Gender Team Hypotheses Female representatives will tend to be more ideologically liberal than their male counterparts in the same party. Higher turnout among women voters means more seats for Democrats in Congress. When a woman is a candidate in a Congressional race, there is a higher turnout by women voters. The candidate who spends the greatest amount is most likely to win.
Incumbents get more and bigger campaign contributions than challengers.
Republicans get more and bigger campaign contributions than Democrats. During this week students met for one class session with the government documents librarian and the social science librarian to discuss places to seek information and evidence for their hypotheses. This class session introduced the students to the library, and to how to effectively search for government documents. The election website reports were researched and written based on these hypotheses. The librarians each created a web page for the students, which was linked to the course website.