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The Path to 270 Revisited Report
The 2012 presidential race is now a choice between two competing visions of American society and governance—one that promotes an active role for government in advancing individual opportunity, economic security, and national prosperity; and one that embraces personal responsibility, market forces, and limited government as a means for achieving growth and greater freedom. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

The Path to 270 Revisited

The complex mix of demographics, economics, and ideology makes the already-close presidential race even more vigorously contested.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Ruy Teixeira on the Path to 270 Electoral Votes Video
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Ruy Teixeira on the Path to 270 Electoral Votes

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira outlines the demographic and economic factors that will drive the 2012 presidential election.

Ruy Teixeira

The Path to 270 Report

The Path to 270

Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin explain how the shifting demographic balance of the American electorate, and the objective reality and voter perception of the economy in key battleground states will both play huge roles in determining the 2012 presidential election.

John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira

The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive Article

The Constitution Is Inherently Progressive

John Podesta and John Halpin on how the values in the Constitution are those that both progressives and conservatives should cherish and protect.

John Podesta, John Halpin

The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series Report

The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series

A series of reports about the progressives response to demographic change throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States.

Matt Browne, John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira

The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics Report
This January 1935 photo shows a mural depicting phases of the New Deal. (AP/File)

The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics

Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin examine several core assumptions that broadly define a progressive approach to economics in terms of theory, values, and practice.

Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin

Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge Article

Politics Doesn’t Stop at Water’s Edge

The Progressive Studies Program’s Progressive Authors Series hold an event with Julian Zelizer on his new book on how domestic politics shape foreign policy.

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy Article

Justice Stevens’s Principled and Pragmatic Legacy

CAP’s Progressive Authors Series discusses a new book on the life and career of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America Report
The National Progressive Convention in Chicago is seen on August 6, 1912. As a philosophical tradition, progressivism in its most complete form developed as a “new liberalism” for a new century—updating the American liberal tradition from its Jeffersonian, small-government, republican roots best suited for the agrarian economy of the nation’s founding era to a more democratic and modern liberalism capable of checking rising corporate power. (Library of Congress)

The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America

Part one of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the philosophical and theoretical development of progressivism as a response to the rise of industrial capitalism.

John Halpin, Conor P. Williams

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