Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Cola. The underlying assumption of focus group research is that what (sometimes) works for consumer markets must be transferable to the political market place, since casting a vote is a matter of individual choice, like having a preference for a soft drink. Political focus groups are thus an important part of turning politics into […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence from Arizona, New York, and California suggests more than 500,000 registrations were tampered with or improperly handled….hundreds of thousands of voters were denied the right to vote or were forced to vote provisionally. A quarter million or more provisional or affidavit Democratic ballots were not counted. Available evidence also suggests that the vast […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] are still in charge of the party. This became open when Mrs May refused to answer the question put to her by Iain Dale: ‘How would you vote now if there was a referendum on leaving the EU?’68 Meanwhile, at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour’s policy would be to guarantee […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of sources; and that this is […]