ASU React:Earthquakes and Elections

   Hello I am Alexandra Navarro. In an interview I conducted with student Alexxis Munoz earlier this week, when I asked her about the NPR Moring Edition piece called What Earthquakes Can Teach Us About  Elections, where Adam Lichtman makes the connection between political elections and earthquakes. After listening to the piece, Alexxis makes the comment that other listeners had also made that when a political election is close, that when watching the news, the terms “seismic number of voters” and others mentioned in the audio, have been used my people on the news. She also said that she thought it was weird to think of earthquakes determining the elections by a series of unstable and unstable elections in the past.  In the NPR  piece, Lichtman states that the earthquakes can determine the winner of the election by if the economy is “unstable” like the surface of an earthquake than a new, opposing candidate will win. The same if there is a “stable” and good policy that is working, than the current officeholder will keep the position and win the election. This has been a report on my interview on Shankar Vedantam’s What Earthquakes Can Teach Us About Elections.