A Transformation in American National Politics: The Presidential Election of 2012

Abstract

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- I. Campaigning and Geography -- Chapter 2: The Obama White House's Transition from Governing to Campaigning -- Chapter 3: A Heartbeat Away: The Strategic Importance of Paul Ryan and Joe Biden in the 2012 Presidential Election -- Chapter 4: The Political Geography of the 2012 Presidential Election -- Chapter 5: The Republican Advantage Continues: The 2012 Election in the South -- Chapter 6: The 2012 Presidential Race in Battleground Florida: Changing Demographics Challenge the Obama and Romney Campaigns -- II. Domestic and Economic Policy -- Chapter 7: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt": Using the Past to Win the Present -- Chapter 8: Health Care in the 2012 Election -- Chapter 9: The Obama Regulatory Record: Partisanship, Perception, and the 2012 Election -- Chapter 10: Conspicuous Silence: Global Climate Change and the 2012 Presidential Election -- III. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 11: American Exceptionalism and the Elections of 1976, 1980, and 2012 -- Chapter 12: President Obama's National Security and Counterterrorism Strategy and the Presidential Election of 2012 -- Chapter 13: The Obama Administration's Homeland Security Record as a 2012 Campaign Issue -- Chapter 14: U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Change in the 2012 Presidential Election -- Contributors -- Index.