Ruy Teixeira

Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow and co-director of the Progressive Studies Program at the Center for American Progress.

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Diffident Democrats:

Ruy TeixeiraDec 19, 2001

A recent widely noted New York Times article recounted the many difficulties that Democrats are having getting their preferred candidates to run in key races in 2002. Many prospective candidates are backing off from running because they believe that the current war against terrorism will make it too hard to run a strong campaign. The upsurge in national unity and patriotism, it is thought, will lead most voters to favor the incumbent party and look askance at challengers.

Who Deserted the Democrats in 1994?

Analysts have pronounced 1994 an ideological election because the economy was growing overall. But look who was swinging Republican.

Ruy TeixeiraDec 19, 2001

The Tax Cut Nobody Wants

Ruy TeixeiraDec 19, 2001

How important are tax cuts? Judging from the campaigns of the major presidential candidates, you'd think they were pretty important. Republican George W. Bush has made a huge, broad-based tax cut--$483 billion over five years, as much as $1.7 trillion over 10 years--a centerpiece, if not the centerpiece, of his campaign. And even Democrat Al Gore has called for $350 billion in tax cuts (over 10 years), including everything from a reduction in the "marriage penalty" to targeted tax incentives in areas like education and retirement.

Lessons for Next Time

Ruy TeixeiraDec 19, 2001

After trailing for almost all of the last six weeks before the election, Al Gore wound up the victor in the popular vote on November 7, nosing out George W. Bush 48.6 percent to 48.3 percent. Where did all these Gore voters come from?

Behind the Numbers: The Real Electorate

New census data about who voted in 1996 paint a very different picture than did the initial reports from exit polls.

Ruy TeixeiraDec 19, 2001

R
ecently released data from the Bureau of the Census now reveal a
picture of the voting public in 1996 that is substantially different from the
one that was available immediately after the election. Initially, analysts
believed the electorate was dominated by upscale, college-educated voters. The
census data show that view was wrong and suggest that political strategies based
on that perception may not work.

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Ruy Teixeira

Recent Articles

Diffident Democrats:

Who Deserted the Democrats in 1994?

Analysts have pronounced 1994 an ideological election because the economy was growing overall. But look who was swinging Republican.

The Tax Cut Nobody Wants

Lessons for Next Time

Behind the Numbers: The Real Electorate

New census data about who voted in 1996 paint a very different picture than did the initial reports from exit polls.

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