Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics

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In their fourth book on American elections, Ceaser and Busch explore the campaign, election, and aftermath of the election season. While the book focuses on the heated presidential campaign, it also includes analyses of the house and senate races. More than just a summary, The Election examines the theories behind the events and uses studies and data to explain why the election went the way it did.

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Once again, Ceaser and Busch come through with a timely and clearly written analysis of the elections. To make sense of one of the U.S.'s most contentious campaigns, you need to read this book. I especially commend this volume to colleagues teaching American politics next Fall, when students will be grappling with the importance of Bush's reelection to the future of U.S. politicssss -- Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University, author; The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Sixth Edition
Red Over Blue is a fair, accurate, and insightful account of the 2004 election, and a worthy successor to the authors previous books on 1996 and 2000. Ceaser and Busch are fast becoming the 'scholars of record' of presidential campaigns. An informative and thought-provoking book. -- John C. Green, University of Akron
This work, like its predecessors, is a crisp narrative that accessibly frames the major events and undercurrents of the 2004 primary and general elections in concepts drawn from the technical side of political science, such as realignment theory, base strategy vs. swing strategy, and partisan defection rates. The result, not quite scholarship and not quite journalism, is more substantian that Evan Thomas's Election 2004 and will be useful in both public and academic libraries. * Library Journal *
Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *
Focuses on the 2004 presidential campaign, from primaries to aftermath. * The Chronicle of Higher Education *
Once again, Ceaser and Busch come through with a timely and clearly written analysis of the elections. To make sense of one of the U.S.'s most contentious campaigns, you need to read this book. I especially commend this volume to colleagues teaching American politics next Fall, when students will be grappling with the importance of Bush's reelection to the future of U.S. politics -- Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University, author; The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Sixth Edition

Author Bio

James W. Ceaser is professor of politics at the University of Virginia. Andrew E. Busch is associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. Together, they have written The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Election, Losing to Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics, and Upside Down and Inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics.