Race to the White House - Episode #6
The Conversation88 MB(download)
This week's episode of Race to the White House looks at the history and importance of public opinion polls, as well as previewing the third and final presidential debate.
What does the Nobel mean for America?
Amelia Gapin
Immigrants have contributed to America’s great success at the Nobel. Of the 350 Nobel winners from the United States, more than 100 have been immigrants.
Donald Trump has become the poster boy for ‘post-truth’ politics.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Candidates and campaigns are analyzing voters endlessly this election season. But the internet allows us to turn the tables and obtain a wide variety of data about them, too.
Donald Trump’s campaign has been built upon controversial statements that have kept his name in the news.
Reuters/Mike Segar
The narrative Donald Trump has played during the campaign is that the elites who have abandoned him or disagree with him are all part of the establishment he seeks to destroy.
It’s a uniquely American phenomenon for newspapers to suggest one candidate over the other.
Patrick Fallon/Reuters
A 1995 tax return shows a net operating loss so large that it raises concerns about whether it was reported properly – and if Trump has been honest about his taxes.
Now that Labor has shot down the government’s proposed plebiscite on same-sex marriage, the issue of marriage equality threatens to haunt Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership.
The virulence of some of the contemporary sexism against female politicians reflects the unrestraint that characterises the social media age.
David Foote/AUSPIC
Despite persistent myths that sexual violence and harassment are rare, two recent cases – and the subsequent online response – expose their commonality.
How long should voters have to wait? Hartford, Connecticut in 2012.
REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin
Race to the White House - Episode #5
The Conversation, CC BY-SA78,2 MB(download)
This episode of Race to the White House examines the fallout from the second presidential debate and asks whether the Republican Party can transform itself to remain politically relevant.
Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney