The power of the vote
Subtitle: electing presidents, overthrowing dictators, and promoting democracy around the world
By: Douglas E. Schoen
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780061231889
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Election; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008; Presidents -- Election -- Case studies; Political campaigns -- United States -- History; Political campaigns -- Case studies; Democratic Party (U.S.); United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Genres: Case studies
Other titles: Electing presidents, overthrowing dictators, and promoting democracy around the world
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376) and index
Table of contents: title: Part one: birth of a pollster; title: Canvassing, the Klan, and the plot to take over New York City; title: Harvard, Ivy League radical chic, and the crisis of the Democratic Party; title: The invention of overnight polling, Ed Koch, and politics in the Big Easy; title: Part two: going global; title: Polling in the promised land; title: Public opinion research and the fall of Slobodan Milose̦vić; title: Broadband politics, ugly Americans, and politics in the shadow of the world's most dangerous state; title: Part three: the big time; title: New Democrats, inoculation, Bill Clinton, and Ma Bell; title: The stealth campaign and the resurrection of the Clinton presidency; title: Jon Corzine, competitive liberalism, and the importance of messaging; title: September 11, Mike Bloomberg, and the rise of the outsider; title: Part four: an uncertain future; title: The power and possibilities of exit polls; title: Pitfalls on the path to 2008