Election Administration During Natural Disasters and Emergencies: Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Election

Understanding health care in the 2012 election.

The outcome of the 2012 election will have far­ reaching ramifications for the future of U.S. health care. Rarely in a national election have the two major candidates’ views about health care been so diametrically opposed. The views of President Barack Obama and Republican presi­ dential nominee Mitt Romney differ on whether the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be implemented or repealed, ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases and the 2012 US Presidential Election

1 National School of Tropical Medicine and Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Deerfield, Illinois, United States ...

Moralization and the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign

People vary in the extent to which they imbue an attitude with moral conviction; however, little is known about what makes an issue transform from a relatively non-moral preference to a moral conviction. In the context of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, we test if affect and beliefs (thoughts about harms and benefits) are antecedents or consequences of participants’ moral conviction about ...

Retweetability Analysis and Prediction during Hurricane Sandy

Twitter is a very important source for obtaining information, especially during events such as natural disasters. Users can spread information in Twitter either by crafting new posts, which are called “tweets,” or by using retweet mechanism to re-post the previously created tweets. During natural disasters, identifying how likely a tweet is to be highly retweeted is very important since it can ...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election