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July 30, 2020Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

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Impact Of Pentagon Weapons Spending On Jobs (And Votes) In Four Battleground States (From Forbes)

July 30, 2020Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

U.S. presidential elections tend to be decided by small numbers of voters in a handful of battleground states. Partisan sentiment is so evenly split in those states that seemingly minor factors can decide who wins all of a state’s electoral college votes. So the fact that weapons makers play a major role in the economies of states like Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania has intriguing implications for the November election. I have written a commentary for Forbes detailing the role played by companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies in the most important swing states here.

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