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Title A return to normalcy? : the 2020 election that (almost) broke America / edited by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and J. Miles Coleman.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021]
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Description viii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A return to normalcy?: taking stock at the end of the Trump presidency / Larry J. Sabato -- The off-kilter presidential primaries of 2020 / Rhodes Cook -- Was Joe Biden's primary win inevitable or accidental? / David Byler -- The politics of good versus evil: voting in a polarized America / Alan I. Abramowitz -- A political road trip across the country: presidential trends in some swingy, and not-so-swingy, states / J. Miles Coleman -- The House: a blue wave reduced to a blue trickle / Kyle Kondik -- The Senate: how Democrats found the most difficult path to a majority / Madelaine Pisani -- Governors and state legislatures: Republicans retain strength as redistricting looms / Mary Frances McGowan -- Parties, presidents and the black electorate's gender gap / Theodore R. Johnson -- Media coverage of the 2020 election: journalists and influencers in the misinformation age / Diana Owens -- Defending democracy during a pandemic / Grace Panetta -- The $14 billion election: emerging campaign finance trends and their impact on the 2020 presidential race and beyond / Michael E. Toner and Karen E. Trainer -- Was Trump worth it for Republicans? / Sean Trende.
Summary In this book, leading American politics experts examine every facet of the stunning 2020 election and its aftermath and how these events will impact America moving forward. Each contributor goes beyond the headlines and dives into the underlying forces and shifts that drove the election from its earliest developments to its chaotic conclusion.
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020.
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
United States. Congress -- Elections, 2020.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (OCoLC)fst00050071
Trump, Donald, 1946- (OCoLC)fst00174117
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Presidents -- Election. (OCoLC)fst01075747
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term Since 2017
Added Author Sabato, Larry, editor.
Kondik, Kyle, editor.
Coleman, J. Miles, editor.
Other Form: ebook version : 9781538148532
ISBN 9781538148518 (hardback)
153814851X (hardback)
9781538148525 (paperback)
1538148528 (paperback)
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