The 2024 Presidential Election: Key Issues and Regional Dynamics

This book adopts a regional approach to understanding 2024 presidential election outcomes. Quantitative and qualitative analysis examines electoral outcomes in the Midwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast, enriching contextual understandings of the national results and illuminating nuances in public opinion, voter behavior, and party politics. From this foundation, the book aspires to be the most comprehensive assessment of prominent issues in the 2024 campaign.  Scholars examine seven key issues to understand how these issues affected the 2024 campaign and how the campaign affected public opinion and policymaking toward these issues.

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Luke Perry is Distinguished Professor of political science at Utica University and Director of the Utica University Center of Public Affairs and Election Research. Perry is Editor of The 2020 Presidential Election: Key Issues and Regional Dynamics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and The 2020 Democratic Primary: Key Developments, Dynamics and Lessons for 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), as well as author of Donald Trump and the 2018 Midterm Battle for Central New York (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Religious Responses to Marriage Equality (2018), Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the 2012 Election (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and coauthor of Mormons in American Politics; From Persecution to Power (2012).