My talk at American University

Red State Blue State: How Will the U.S. Vote?

It’s the “annual Halloween and pre-election extravaganza” of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and they suggested I could talk on the zombies paper (of course), but I thought the material on voting might be of more general interest.

The “How will the U.S. vote?” subtitle was not of my choosing, but I suppose I can add a few slides about the forthcoming election.

Fri 29 Oct 2010, 7pm in Ward I, in the basement of the Ward Circle building.

Should be fun. I haven’t been to AU since taking a class there, over 30 years ago.

P.S. It was indeed fun. Here’s the talk. I did end up briefly describing my zombie research but it didn’t make it into any of the slides.

2 thoughts on “My talk at American University

  1. Hi, Mr. Gelman,
    I'm a current graduate student at AU, majoring in Political Science.
    It's a great pleasure to attend your lecture today! The lecturer was active and energetic, but part of you theory was a little bit confusing to me..
    1. Can we apply the individual-level study(the rich/the poor)to the state-level(the red/the blue)(because we get a knowledge from the fallacy of Durkheim's study)?
    2. Since the rich states contain most parts of US(as showed on the ppt), will the Democratic Party be doomed to fail?
    My personal opinion is whether the rich will vote for either R or D depends on the economic policies(such as tax.if the D provides more flexible tax policies than R do towards the rich, the rich will be sure to vote D because of the rational choice).
    hope to hear from you~
    email: [email protected]
    Sincerely,
    Sophy

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