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Public Opinion and the Media
Lesson Outline
We discussed tomorrow's Super Tuesday election. Latinos are expected to make up about 30% of the electorate. Sanders won Latinos overwhelmingly in Nevada, and if he runs up the score with them in California, he could be build a formidable pledged-delegate lead. How many delegates do the 2020 democratic presidential candidates have? Sanders is the heavy favorite here, despite losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016. He's spent about $7 million on ads (of the $15.5 million he's spent across Super Tuesday states), according to data as of Feb. 27 from Advertising Analytics provided to NPR. Biden has spent $0 on California TV ads, and just $4,000 on digital. A ray of hope for Biden is also that even though early voting started a month ago, fewer ballots have been returned than in past elections. Bloomberg, in contrast, has spent more than $71 million and is currently polling below the 15% threshold required to get any delegates in all of these contests. The CA Democratic Party estimates that African Americans are about 16% of the party. Do they turn out? Depending on which estimate winds up being correct could determine if Biden makes a dent in the state. This will also be the first significant measure of Asian Americans in this election. They were 8% of the electorate in 2008, and the CA Democratic Party estimates they are 10% now. Here is a breakdown of each Super Tuesday state: Texas Delegates at stake: 228 Virginia Delegates at stake: 99 Massachusetts Delegates at stake: 91 Minnesota Delegates at stake: 75 Tennessee Delegates: 64 Alabama Delegates at stake: 52 Oklahoma Delegates at stake: 37 Arkansas Delegates at stake: 31 Utah Delegates at stake: 29 Maine Delegates at stake: 24 Vermont Delegates at stake: 16
Assignment
Read pp. 107 - 115 in text
Session Minutes
60
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60
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1.00
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1.00
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