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Legislators today stick around longer than legislators in the past.
Bob Bernick reports today that retirements and nomination upsets will bring 15 freshmen to the 75-member Utah House of Representatives. November may bring us even more freshmen. I reported last year that the Utah legislature has fewer freshmen these days … Continue reading
I encourage voters to use these statistics to supplement other information, not to supplant it.
I calculate a lot of statistics about the Utah legislature. Lately, I’ve noticed various statistics being used in some of the nomination battles that are happening right now. Incumbent legislators are being confronted by challengers over their party support scores, … Continue reading
Liljenquist's former colleagues are evenly split on his candidacy, but it's hard to explain the split using ideology.
Today, Dan Liljenquist announced that 13 of the 22 Republicans in the state senate have endorsed his challenge against Orrin Hatch. I thought I’d do a quick comparison of the 13 who endorsed him to the 9 who did not. … Continue reading
The list of top ten issues Utah voters are most concerned with was mostly filled with themes we've seen throughout the last few elections
This is a guest post by Morgan Lyon Cotti, Senior Research Analyst at the Utah Foundation. Last week Adam Brown wrote a post about the Tea Party’s declining favorability, and cited polling data showing that unfavorable views of the Tea … Continue reading
We should expect fewer laws out of the Utah legislature than out of Congress, yet we see the opposite.
As I prepped some lecture data for my Congress course today, I was surprised at something I hadn’t noticed before: Congress passes far fewer laws than the Utah legislature. I did a double take. How could it be? Utah’s legislators … Continue reading
"Unfavorable" views of the Tea Party movement have jumped from 22% in February 2010 to 51% in March 2012, mostly at the expense of "don't know" respondents.
The Tribune ran an article over the weekend about the Tea Party’s (waning) influence in Utah politics. I was quoted characterizing some trends in the national polling data. For the curious, here are the exact polling numbers. My statements were … Continue reading
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Friday, April 20th, 2012. I've just uploaded your final grades to my website. You can log in and view them. I'll be reporting them to the university soon. I've still got [continued ...]
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012. Log in to see your overall letter grade for the course. The average on the final exam was lower than I hoped (average of 75%). This brought down [continued ...]
Monday, April 16th, 2012. ... are now available by logging into the 315 website. I wrote a fair amount on most papers. You're welcome to come pick it up some time if you're [continued ...]
Friday, April 13th, 2012. I've been out most of today, but I should be in my office from now until 4:30 or so. Monday, I should be here until 2 or so.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012. The first 10 questions review pre-midterm stuff. The next 70 questions cover post-midterm stuff. You've already done lots of open-ended writing in [continued ...]
Thursday, April 12th, 2012. I will spend this afternoon writing the exam, so I will be in my office the rest of today. I'll be on campus tomorrow, too, but I'll be in and out [continued ...]
Thursday, April 12th, 2012. At length, I have finished grading your portfolios. Each one takes around half an hour to grade, hence the delay. I enjoyed reading them and seeing [continued ...]
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012. Let's move the due date for the PlSc 399r term paper back from Monday to Wednesday. This should make life a little easier for those students enrolled [continued ...]
Monday, April 9th, 2012. Regrettably, I've been asked to attend a meeting this morning that forces me to cancel office hours.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012. I'll pass them back in class, but I didn't go back through and write letter grades on them. To see your overall score, you'll need to log into the [continued ...]
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