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Robert H. Binstock
Professor of Aging, Health and Society
Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-3717
E-mail: rhb3@case.edu
Expertise: A former president of the
Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Binstock has served as
director of a White House Task Force on Older Americans, and
as chairman and member of a number of advisory panels to the
United States government, state and local governments, and
foundations. He is also a former chair of the Gerontological
Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He
has frequently testified before the U.S. Congress.
Professor Binstock has published more than 250 articles,
book chapters, monographs, and books. Most of them deal with
politics and policies affecting aging. His 25 authored and
edited books include Aging Nation: The Economics and
Politics of Growing Older in America; six editions of the Handbook
of Aging and the Social Sciences; and The Fountain of
Youth: Cultural, Scientific, and Ethical Perspectives on a
Biomedical Goal. Among the honors he has received
for contributions to gerontology and the well-being of older
persons are the Kent Award and the Brookdale Award from the
Gerontological Society of America; the Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Key Award from the American Public Health
Association's Gerontological Health Section; and the American
Society on Aging's Hall of Fame Award.
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Chris Duncan
Professor and Chair
Political Science Department
University of Dayton
Office: 937/229-3648
E-mail: christopher.duncan@notes.udayton.edu
Expertise: Christopher Duncan studies American
political culture and historical development. He has
written on public and social policy and is currently
working on a book about christianity and American politics.
In terms of the coming election, he can comment on ideological trends and thinking in the
American electorate and between various candidates. He
believes that the big story of the coming race will be the
Republican Reformation - a major split in the Republican party
between mainstream East Coast and Northeastern Republicans and
Southern and Midwestern Republicans over the cultural
questions that matter most to evangelicals.
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John W. Gastil
Associate Professor, Communication Department
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Washington
Cell: 206/384-1228
E-mail: jgastil@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Cultural underpinnings of public
opinion, different approaches to integrating citizen
deliberation into existing institutional, political, and
cultural contexts. He can comment specifically on:
- how voters make decisions about who to support
- how campaigns make strategic decisions
- the low quality of campaign discourse
- initiative elections generally, particularly how voters
think through issues
- how people's cultural orientations shape their votes
- ideas for how to improve the electoral process
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Jay Mandle
Professor of Economics
Colgate University
Office: 315/228-7960
E-mail: jmandle@mail.colgate.edu
Expertise: "Americans don't trust their
government or political system. Cynicism about the
motives and interests of our politicians is so deep that
voters find themselves in an immobilizing contradiction,"
wrote Mandle in a recent Newsday column about political
corruption.
Author of "Globalization and the Poor," Mandle is
an expert in economic policy and treasurer of Democracy
Matters, a national college campus-based organization focused
on campaign finance reform. Mandle argues that elections
in a democracy can and should be treated as a public good,
analogous to the way national security is considered.
All should pay for elections through the public sector because
no set of individuals or groups should be permitted
disproportionately to benefit from them. Mandle's
commitment to the issue of money in politics is evident in his
regular monthly editorial, Money On My Mind, appearing on the
Democracy Matters website, www.democracymatters.org.
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David Domke
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
University of Washington
Office: 206/685-1739
Cell: 206/795-8802
Home: 206/729-5744
E-mail: domke@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Campaign rhetoric, religion and
politics, news coverage, public opinion. Domke is a
former journalist (Orange County Register; Atlanta
Journal-Constitution) who studies (a) the rhetoric and
political strategy of U.S. politicians, (b) the ways in which
journalists cover U.S. politics, and (c) the effects of both
of these on public opinion. He is the author of
"God Willing? Political Fundamentalism in the White
House, 'War on Terror,' and the Echoing Press" (2004),
and "The God Strategy: How Republicans and Democrats Made
Religion A Political Weapon" (scheduled for January
2008). Domke has worked as a political consultant in
past campaigns and regularly delivers talks and conducts
workshops along with politicians and politically engaged
members of the public.
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Roderick P.
Hart
Professor of Communication Studies
Director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic
Participation
The University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/471-5646
E-mail: rodhart@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: His areas of special interest are
politics and the mass media, presidential studies and
rhetorical analysis. He is the author of twelve books,
including: Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us;
Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas,
Communication in U.S. Elections: New Agendas, and Campaign
Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us. He is also the
author of DICTION 5.0, a computer program designed to analyze
language patterns. Currently, he is the director of the
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Richard Katula
Professor and Chair, Communications Studies
Northeastern University
Office: 617/373-5040
E-mail: r.katula@neu.edu
Expertise: Richard Katula's primary research
interest is political communication, and he has written about
Presidential oratory and Presidential debates. He is the
author of A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric and The
Gettysburg Address: A Speech for the Ages (documentary
video). He examines ways in which candidates frame ideas
in words and present themselves visually in their campaign
speaking.
Quoting Richard Katula: "The essence of effective
political communication is creating the appearance of
authenticity and spontaneity in a situation that is entirely
scripted."
"From a purely rhetorical perspective, candidates in
the 2008 election will have to carefully study the first
debates from Campaign 2000 and Campaign 2004. Both
tracking polls and expert analysis clearly show that nonverbal
displays of petulance, annoyance, and arrogance on the part of
Al Gore in 2000 and George Bush in 2004 had a dramatic effect
on both elections (5-8 points in the polls)."
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Stephanie
Kelley-Romano
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
Department of Theater and Rhetoric
Bates College
Office: 207/786-6191
Home: 207/998-8175
E-mail: skelley@bates.edu
Expertise: Kelley-Romano's relevant research area
is political communication. She examines editorial
cartoons, newspaper coverage of candidates, and the
traditional public address genres of campaigning (debates,
nominating speeches, apologia, acceptance speeches, and
speeches of defeat). She is concerned with the
construction of the appropriate presidential ethos during the
campaigning process. She has published work on newspaper
coverage and the public sphere, political cartoons, and the
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Daron Shaw
Associate Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/232-7275
Cell: 512/608-3840
E-mail: dshaw@jeeves.la.utexas.edu
Expertise: Professor Shaw served as a strategist
in the 2000 and 2004 presidential election campaigns. He
also has worked as a survey research analyst in political
campaigns. He teaches courses in campaigns and
elections, public opinion and voting behavior. He serves
on the editorial board for American Politics Research and on
the national decision team for Fox News. His most recent
project is a book on campaigns effects. He is co-editor
of Communications in U.S. Elections: New Agendas, which
features innovative research in political communication.
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Robert
Kraynak
Professor of Political Science
Presidential Scholar
Colgate University
Office: 315/228-7525
E-mail: rkraynak@colgate.edu
Expertise: Modern political philosophy, American
political theory.
"President Clinton's eventual admission of his White
House affair with Monica Lewinsky helped change the political
landscape," Dr. Kraynak, a Republican now leaning toward
supporting Mr. Romney, told Newsday for a recent article.
"There is a way that Clinton softened up public
opinion in a way that makes Giuliani possible. People
are genuinely not sure if the office of the presidency is
supposed to be a results-oriented job or a moral
authority," Dr. Kraynak said. "Different
periods in our history, we value one more than the
other."
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The Rev. John
Putka
Political Science Lecturer
University of Dayton
Office: 937/229-2594
E-mail: john.putka@notes.udayton.edu
Expertise: The Rev. John Putka, S.M., is the
director of University of Dayton's Congressional Internship
Program, during which UD students have worked for more than 50
members of Congress. Putka teaches classes in American
political systems, legislative politics, and issues of church
and state in U.S. politics.
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John Baughman
Associate Professor and Chair
Political Science Department
Bates College
Office: 207/786-6465
E-mail: jbaughma@bates.edu
Expertise: Committee influence on national
policy. Author of the book Common Ground, which
traces the development of congressional institutions in the
Antebellum era and the transformation of the House from a
small council of equals into a powerful and complex modern
legislature.
Though ordinarily hidden from public view, most of the
legislative work of the U.S. House of Representatives takes
place in its committees. There the political battles are
fought and the technical decisions made before a bill emerges
for a final vote by the full House. Most of the
important issues of the day -- global warming, homeland
security, energy policy, health care reform, international
trade -- are complex enough that many committees are in a
position to influence policy, each with its own parochial
concerns.
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Donald C. Baumer
Professor of Government
Smith College
Office: 413/585-3534
E-mail: dbaumer@email.smith.edu
Expertise: Baumer researches public policy and
Congress and teaches the introductory course in American
government. He can discuss the contemporary role of
Congress in the policy-making process and the tension inherent
in the design of Congress as the maker of public policy for a
country with a diverse citizenship.
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Sean Theriault
Assistant Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/232-7279
Cell: 832/21-3991
E-mail: seant@gov.utexas.edu
Expertise: Professor Theriault researches party
polarization in the U.S. Congress and the disconnect between
elected officials' views and those of their
constituencies. He is the author of The Power of the
People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter
Retribution (The Ohio State University Press, 2005) -- and
articles on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric
(Presidential Studies Quarterly) to congressional careers
(Legislative Studies Quarterly).
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Justin Buchler
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-2646
E-mail: justin.buchler@case.edu
Expertise: Justin Buchler's dissertation
focuses on the role of Leadership Political Action Committees
in Congressional campaigns and he has published articles on
new voting technologies. Professor Buchler has also published
on the topic of congressional redistricting. He teaches
courses on research methods, political strategy, Congress, and
parties and elections.
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Robert
Johnstone
Professor of Politics
Earlham College
Office: 765/983-1264
Home: 765/962-5443
E-mail: bobj@earlham.edu
Expertise: A widely-quoted authority on the
history of the American presidency and political leadership,
Bob Johnstone also is a noted scholar of
American constitutional law, "from Marbury v. Madison to
U.S. v. Nixon to Roe v. Wade." As he informs many
of his constitutional law students (quoting Alexis de
Tocqueville), "Scarcely any political question arises in
the United States which is not resolved, sooner or later, into
a judicial question."
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Ronald
Seyb
Associate Professor of Government
Skidmore College
Office: 518/580-5248
E-mail: rseyb@skidmore.edu
Expertise: Seyb’s long-term research interest
has been presidential management of the executive
branch. He has published papers on the Nixon, Carter,
and Regan initiatives in this area in “Presidential Studies
Quarterly” and “The Journal of Policy History.”
His more recent course topics include the relationship between
the American public and politics in the media age, the U.S.
Presidency, and political psychology. In 1996, he taught
“Election ’96,” to help students understand how
presidential elections work and to become better informed as
voters.
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Lara Kalafatis
Vice President for University Relations
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-4352
E-mail: lara.kalafatis@case.edu
Expertise: As vice president of university
relations, Kalafatis oversees alumni and government relations,
programs, events and marketing communications. She began her
career at Case in the office of university programs and
events, assisting with the inauguration of Caes’s then new
president, Dr. David Hundert, and in 2004 she was in charge of
working with the Commission on Presidential Debates to host a
vice presidential debate at Case.
Her responsibilities included organization and implementing
Cases’ plan to host the debate and provide related
programming throughout the city, from a museum exhibit to
lectures, a student debate, and a watch party featuring giant
screens and a band.
Leading up to the debates, national networks like MSNBC and
CNN aired live and specialized programs onsite. Hosting the
debate resulted in a $20 million economic impact and even more
in free publicity for the school and the city of Cleveland.
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Alan Schroeder
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
Northeastern University
Office: 617/373-7227
E-mail: a.schroeder@neu.edu
Expertise: Alan Schroeder's research focuses on
the intersection of media and politics, especially at the
presidential level, and he has written about presidential
debates and the relationship between presidents and
entertainers. He is the author of two books: Presidential
Debates: 40 Years of High-Risk TV and Celebrity-in-Chief:
How Show Business Took Over the White House. Prior
to becoming an academic, Schroeder spent 15 years as a
television producer and newspaper reporter. He is a
two-time Emmy winner for his work at Boston's WBZ-TV.
Quoting Alan Schroeder: "The 2008 presidential
election is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing in
recent history, and the 2008 debate season will be getting
underway earlier than ever. With no incumbent in the
race, and a wide and growing field of candidates, debates have
the potential to be pivotal in defining the campaign season
ahead."
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Stephen Butler
Professor of Sociology/Anthropology and African and African
American Studies
Earlham College
Office: 765/983-1662
Home: 765/966-0347
Email: stephenb@earlham.edu
Expertise: Butler can respond to such issues
as: How might shifting demographics - not
to mention lingering resentments - caused by the dislocation
of hundreds of thousands of persons from the Gulf Coast in the
wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita affect the next round of
presidential voting in certain key electoral districts/states,
particularly in Florida and Texas? He can also offer a historical perspective on the impact of the just re-authorized
Voting Rights Act.
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Gary Segura
Professor of Political Science
University of Washington
Office: 206/543-7945
Home: 206/542-2095
Cell: 206/280-5069
E-mail: gmsegura@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Segura is a scholar of public opinion
and elections. His specific areas of expertise are with
respect to minority and particularly Latino politics, and on
the politics of war-time public opinion. He has served
as the lead investigator of numerous surveys, both nationwide
and of specific populations, and is well-versed in survey
research methodology and interpretation. Along with Matt
Barreto, he is the principal investigator of the Washington
Poll.
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Alexander P.
Lamis
Associate Professor of Political Science
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-2696
Home: 814/860-3378
E-mail: Alexander.lamis@case.edu
Expertise: A specialist on elections and political
parties, he is the author of The Two-Party South, which
was co-winner of the V. O. Key Award in 1984, and articles and
book chapters on the politics of the American South.
He is editor of Ohio Politics and Southern
Politics in the 1990s. Lamis was admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1997.
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Carrie Keating
Professor of Psychology
Colgate University
Office: 315/228-7355
Home: 315-345-9055
E-mail: ckeating@mail.colgate.edu
Expertise: Keating
focuses on the elusive quality of charisma by
investigating the skills and traits associated with social
dominance and leadership. She also
studies facial
structure and form of the presidential candidates and how we
perceive such traits as trustworthiness, strength, weakness,
intellectually superiority, and charisma, to name a few.
Together with colleagues and student collaborators, she has
discovered that humans convey dominance through facial
expressions akin to those of other primates; that facial
features which make people appear powerful also make them seem
untrustworthy; that people who are socially powerful have
unusually good acting skills; and that persuasive performances
begin with kidding oneself. Her studies of dominance and
deception have been featured in the print, radio, and
broadcast media outlets in the U.S. and abroad, including
PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers, Dateline NBC, Discovery
Magazine, The McLaughlin Group, McLaughlin One-On-One, The
Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Learning Channel.
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Andy Rotter
Professor of History
Colgate University
Office: 315-228-7513
E-mail: arotter@mail.colgate.edu
Expertise: Rotter focuses on U.S.
diplomatic history, recent U.S. history -- particularly the
Vietnam War -- and how,
historically, they have affected presidential races. "At
the time of the 1968 elections, for example, the Vietnam War
had become a liability for Vice President and presidential
candidate Hubert Humphrey — he was seen as being saddled
with the war," said Rotter. "Richard Nixon came in
with a roadmap for the area, and he was elected." The
situation with Iraq, he said, isn’t all that different.
"Even if we pull all of our troops out of the country —
which doesn’t seem likely in two years — American voters
want someone with a plan for Iraq, as well as the economy,
health care, and other hot button issues." Author of
Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology and
The Path to Vietnam, Rotter has been published in numerous
academic journals, including the Journal of American History,
Diplomatic History, and The International History Review. He
has been quoted by Newsday, the Philadelphia Daily
News, and
the Times Literary Supplement, among other media outlets.
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Spencer Kelly
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Colgate University
Office: 315/228-7350
Home: 315/824-8206
E-mail: skelly@mail.colgate.edu
Expertise: Kelly applies his
research -- on the role of hand gestures in producing language-- to
politicians and public figures from around the world.
From President Bush’s palm movements to Saddam Hussein’s
pointing, Kelly can analyze the possible meanings and
functions of the hand gestures we repeatedly see in the media.
“Gesture, and other forms of visual communication, are
tightly integrated with our understanding of language,” he
said. “Gesture may represent one of the earliest forms
of communication in the evolution of language.” Kelly
has been quoted by numerous media outlets worldwide, including
Danish public television, Radio 3 in Hong Kong, the Orlando
Sentinel, the New York Times, and the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
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Joseph White
Professor of Public Policy
Director of the Center for Policy Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-2426
E-mail: joseph.white@case.edu
Expertise: Author of False Alarm: Why the
Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare is the
Campaign to Save Them, Competing Solutions: American
Health Care Proposals and International Experience, and,
with Aaron Wildavsky, of The Deficit and the Public
Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s.
Dr. White's most recent publications are "Making
Connections to the Appropriations Process," "How is
Aging a Health Policy Problem?" and "Three Meanings
of Capacity; Or, Why the Federal Government Is Most Likely to
Lead on Insurance Access Issues."
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David Leal
Associate Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/471-1343
E-mail: dleal@gov.utexas.edu
Expertise: Professor Leal specializes in Latino
politics, particularly public opinion and political behavior,
state and local politics, and the U.S. Congress. He is
the co-editor of Latino Politics: Identity, Mobilization,
and Representation (University of Virginia Press,
forthcoming) and is the author of Electing America's
Governors: The Politics of Executive Elections (Palgrave-Macmillan,
forthcoming).
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Ilan Stavans
Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino
Culture
Five-College 40th Anniversary Professor
Amherst College
Office: 413/542-8201
E-mail: istavans@amherst.edu
Expertise: Stavans says the “upcoming
presidential elections will be a test for the Democratic
Party. Can it use all the ammunition at its disposal--the
results of the Iraq war, Katrina, and President Bush's poor
domestic performance? For Latinos it will be a decisive
moment, with immigration serving as a collective referendum of
where the nation is going, not only politically and
economically but culturally. In the past presidential
election, a large number of Latinos voted Republican. The
immigration issue has divided the Latino community; but Latin
America is moving toward the Left and Latinos are feeling the
crunch in the U.S. In my view, they will show up in record
numbers to make their opinion count.”
Among many books, Stavans is the author of Growing up
Latino (1993) and The Hispanic Condition (1995), Dictionary
Days (2005), Disappearances (2006) and the first
dictionary of Spanglish, Spanglish: The Making of a New
American Language (2003). He has debated the role language
plays in public life and civic affairs for African Americans,
Latinos and other immigrant groups. Stavans also published a
selection of the interviews that he conducted on Conversations
with Ilan Stavans on the WGBH (PBS) program "La Plaza."
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Mlada
Bukovansky
Associate Professor of Government
Smith College
Office: 413/585-3530
E-mail: mbukovan@email.smith.edu
Expertise: Bukovansky researches the evolving
norms and institutions of the international system and the
global anti-corruption movement. She can discuss
international politics, European politics and international
organization.
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Philip Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Washington
Office: 206/221-6532
Cell: 206/612-9911
E-mail: pnhoward@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Politics and the Internet; Internet
strategies of candidate and issue campaigns; politics online
in Muslim countries; Internet use and censorship in
authoritarian regimes; hackers and coverage of hackers in
print news media; diversity in ownership of FCC licenses:
online search habits.
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Lance Bennett
Professor of Political Science
Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication
Department of Political Science and Communication
University of Washington
Office: 206/543-4946
Home: 206/213-0342
Cell: 2206/612-6084
E-mail: lbennett@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Media & politics, youth engagement,
digital media networking
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William G. Mayer
Associate Professor of Political Science
Northeastern University
Office: 617/373-4410
E-mail: w.mayer@neu.edu
Expertise: William Mayer's primary research
interests are media and politics, campaigns and elections,
public opinion, and political parties. He is the author
of In Pursuit of the White House 2000: How We Choose Our
Presidential Nominees, The Divided Democrats:
Ideological Unity, Party Reform, and Presidential Elections,
and The Changing American Mind: How and Why American Public
Opinion Changed between 1960 and 1988. Professor
Mayer has been quoted on recent campaigns and elections by
such publications as The Washington Post, The New
York Times, The Boston Globe, and U.S.
News and World Report.
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DeWayne Lucas
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Office: 315/781-3902
Home: 585/315-8726
Email: lucas@hws.edu
Expertise: Lucas can discuss the undercurrent of
the election re: what it means to be a Democrat vs. a
Republican. In particular he will be watching the
"moderate Republicans," whom he calls the most
vulnerable candidates. In addition, Lucas will study the
impact the war has on the election in relation to a candidates’
political affiliation. Following the 2004 election, Lucas
researched and wrote about the ability of the Republican
that year in framing the issue of same-sex marriages as a
defense of traditional marriage, rather than as an expansion
of spousal benefits to same-sex couples. He argues that the
Republican success in shaping the issue early in the election
made Democrats (and social liberals) appear at odds with the
rest of the country. Democratic candidates thus struggled to
assert their true intentions to support same-sex couples.
Lucas also studies the trends in House partisanship and in
redistricting. More information can be found at http://www.hws.edu/news/experts/displayexpert.asp?expertid=26
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Daniel R.
DiSalvo
Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of the American
Founding
Amherst College
Office: 413/542-2916
E-mail: ddisalvo@amherst.edu
Expertise: DiSalvo studies American party
politics and has published on American parties, campaigns and
elections. He predicts an angry presidential contest in 2008one
that he says is beginning right now.
“The 2006 [congressional] elections will tell us who is
angrier: Democrats at Republicans, Democrats at Democrats, or
Republicans at Republicans. Whoever wins this contest for most
indignant voter--that will have serious consequences for both
parties’ short-term tactics and presidential contenders’
long-term strategies.”
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Jennifer Delton
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History
Skidmore College
Office: 518/580-5269
E-mail: jdelton@skidmore.edu
Expertise: A political historian who has
researched and written extensively on the early civil rights
movement and its impact on the Democratic Party, Delton wrote Making
Minnesota Liberal. The book examines how
Congressional leaders on early civil rights legislation –
Minnesotans Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter
Mondale – reshaped the Democratic party in Minnesota and the
nation in the 1940s, and analyzes the mutually beneficial
relationship between white liberals and civil rights activists
during a specific time and place. Her recent courses
have focused on the intersection of domestic politics and
foreign relations since 1945, America in the age of reform
(1890s to 1919), and African-American history.
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Thomas Dumm
Professor of Political Science
Amherst College
Office: 413/542-2349
Email: tldumm@amherst.edu
Expertise: Dumm notes that the 2006 congressional
elections offer the best prediction of what will happen on the
presidential level in 2008. “The upcoming Congressional
elections are likely to result in the same close division that
the country has experienced since 2000. Already, pundits are
speculating that the winners of the election are likely to be
the losers: faced with intractable problems created by the
current President and his administration coming home to roost.
Perhaps the best outcome for the Democrats is to win the House
in order to gain subpoena power, and have the Senate remain in
the hands of the increasingly fractious Republicans.”
Dumm has explored the relationship of punishment to the
origins of American democracy, different aspects of
contemporary American political culture, and poststructuralist
political theory in four books, including A Politics of the
Ordinary (1999). He was founding editor of Theory&Event,
an internationally juried journal of contemporary political
theory.
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Bruce Buchanan
Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/232-7212
Home: 512/451-3414
E-mail: bruceb@mail.la.utexas.edu
Expertise: Professor Buchanan specializes in
presidential and American politics, American institutions,
public policy and political behavior. His books include The
Presidential Experience (Prentice-Hall, 1978), The
Citizen's Presidency (Congressional Quarterly, 1987), Electing
A President (Texas, 1991), Renewing Presidential
Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), The State of
the Presidency (ed, LBJ School/Library 2002), Presidential
Campaign Quality (Prentice-Hall, 2004) and The Policy
Partnership (Routledge, 2004).
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Marc Lendler
Assistant Professor of Government
Smith College
Office: 413/585-3539
E-mail: mlendler@email.smith.edu
Expertise: Lendler researches American politics and teaches about the
presidency and the First Amendment. Lendler's American
Presidency course offers an analysis of the changing power of
the executive branch. He can discuss electoral
participation, presidential selection, campaigns, electoral
behavior, public opinion, parties and congressional elections.
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Robert D.
Loevy
Professor of Political Science
Colorado College
Office: 719/389-6584
Home: 719/471-7848
Cell: 719/640-5895
E-mail: bloevy@ColoradoCollege.edu
Expertise: Presidential primaries and elections;
U.S. Congress, Colorado government and politics; civil rights
movement of the 1960s.
Loevy (rhymes with
"navy") worked on Capitol Hill in the 1960s.
He has participated as a campaign consultant or campaign
manager in a number of political campaigns in Colorado. He
regularly teaches courses in American Government, State and
Local Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement. He
has been quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Christian
Science Monitor, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and other
major newspapers, as well as by many television and radio
stations.
Loevy is the
author of The
Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality
in the Presidential Selection Process (State University
of New York Press, 1995); The Flawed Path to the
Governorship 1994: The Nationalization of a Colorado Statewide
Election Campaign (University Press of America, 1996), Colorado
Politics and Government: Governing the Centennial State
(with Thomas E. Cronin) (University of Nebraska Press, 1993); To
End all Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 (University Press of America, 1990), American
Government: We Are One (with John Whitman et al.)
(Coronado, 1987), and he is the editor and major contributor
to The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law
that Ended Racial Segregation (State University of New
York Press, 1997). He has also self-published his
book, Small
States First, Large States Last: Reforming the Presidential
Election Process 2000, which can
be read at http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~bloevy/bookweb/index.html
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Bryan D. Jones
Professor of Political Science
University of Washington
Office: 206/543-6493
Home: 206/935-8042
E-mail: bdjones@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Public policy processes. Jones'
research has particular focus on agenda-setting-how the agenda
for policy debate is influenced, including the connections
between politics, elections, and public policy. His
latest project, with Walt Williams of the University of
Washington, examines the influence of bad ideas on public
policy. Their forthcoming manuscript is entitled
"The Politics of Bad Ideas: Tax Cut Delusions and the
Decline of Good Government in America."
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Nancy Martorano
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Dayton
Office: 937/229-3650
E-mail: nancy.martorano@notes.udayton.edu
Martorano has conducted research in the areas of urban
politics, Southern politics, political parties, interest
groups and state legislative electoral politics. She
helped write "Transforming South: Exploring Patterns of
State House Seat Contestation," which was published in
the American Review of Politics. She can also discuss
youth voting.
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Thomas F.
Schaller
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Office: 410/455-2845
Cell: 202/299-4778
E-mail: schaller67@hotmail.com
Web site: www.whistlingpastdixie.com
Expertise: Schaller, author of Whistling Past Dixie:
How Democrats Can Win Without the South (Simon &
Schuster, 2006), is an emerging star on the national political
punditry scene. In Dixie, Schaller argues that
the twin effects of race and religion make the South a hostile
environment for Democratic candidates and the party's core
messages.
But, Schaller explains, the changing demographics of the
Midwest and Southwest offer a combination of issues important
to the middle class - including jobs, immigration and the
environment - that give the Democrats their best shot to
regain the White House. The GOP can't win without the
South, Schaller says, but they also can't win with the South
alone.
Schaller is a columnist for the Baltimore Sun and
has appeared in various regional and national media including The
Nation, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," The
New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los
Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Slate,
and the American Prospect, C-SPAN and NPR.
Quoting Schaller: "The dramatic economic, social and
political changes of the past half century can be neither
rewound nor ignored. The old "three-party" model of
regional American partisanship -- with northern and southern
Democrats outvoting western Republicans -- is now defunct,
replaced by a new three-party model that pairs southern and
western Republicans against urban-based Democrats of the
Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast states. Simply put, the
South is no longer the "swing" region in American
politics: It has swung to the Republicans."
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Matt Barreto
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Washington
Office: 206/616-3584
E-mail: mbarreto@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Barreto is an expert on voter behavior
and election polls. He is co-director of the Washington
Poll, an annual survey of registered voters in Washington
state. His research focuses on racial and ethnic
minorities in the U.S., most notably on Latino political
participation.
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Sidney Milkis
White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics
Assistant Director for Academic Programs, Miller Center of
Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Office: 434/924-3037
E-mail: milkis@virginia.edu
Expertise: His research focuses on the American
presidency, political parties and elections, and American
political history. Milkis calls his "a much more
temperate view" of the role of superdelegates than most
scholars and pundits. "The Superdelegates are not
just 'hacks,' as the conventional wisdom has it, but, rather
elected representatives and important party officials. To
them, the Democratic party is not just as a label for the 2008
campaign; it is a collective organization with a past and
future. Indeed, many of these officials will be running on
the Democratic 'ticket' in the Fall, and thus would be central
to any hope of developing a governing coalition, should a
Democrat be elected president. Superdelegates were made
part of the Democratic presidential selection process in 1984 to
add a measure of deliberation and institutional loyalty to a
candidate-centered campaign that was all too prone to sacrifice
the party for the nominee and issues of the moment."
Milkis' books include: The President and the Parties: The
Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal
(1993); Political Parties and Constitutional Government:
Remaking American Democracy (1999); Presidential
Greatness (2000), coauthored with Marc Landy; and The
American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007
(2007), 5th edition, coauthored with Michael Nelson.
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Mark A. Smith
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Washington
Office: 206/616-3606
Home: 206/368-8431
E-mail: masmith@u.washington.edu
Expertise: Smith studies voter initiatives,
interest groups, PACs and the influence of right-wing think
tanks and media. According to Smith, "The most likely
scenario is that the Democratic superdelegates (those who
haven't yet declared) flock en masse to whoever has the lead in
pledged delegates, so long as it's not a paper-thin lead.
Only if it's a virtual tie in pledged delegates do I see the
superdelegates coming into play."
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Howard J. Gold
Associate Professor of Government
Smith College
Office: 413/585-4905
E-mail: hgold@email.smith.edu
Expertise: Gold researches partisanship and
voting behavior, particularly third parties and Ralph Nader.
Gold can discuss the impact of the mass media on politics and
partisanship, voting behavior and turnout, public opinion and
racial attitudes.
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Mark D. Gearan
President
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Office: (Media Relations Director Mary LeClair) 315/781-3697
E-mail: mleclair@hws.edu
Expertise: Prior to serving as director of the
Peace Corps, Gearan served at the White House as assistant to
the President and director of communications, as well as deputy
chief of staff. During the 1992 presidential campaign, he was Al
Gore’s campaign manager, and then deputy director of
President-elect Clinton’s transition team. In the past,
national media outlets called upon him for expertise on U.S.
presidential transitions; he is a member of the advisory board
of The Presidential Appointee Initiative, a project of the
Brookings Institution, which has begun to revamp the process
through which U.S. Presidential appointees are chosen. Gearan is
in touch with the young voter and their commitment to
public service and voting. In addition to serving as president,
he is on the board of directors of the Corporation for National
and Community Service, the National Board of Governors of The
Partnership of Public Service in Washington, D.C., the board of
the National Campus Compact and serves as co-chair of the New
York Campus Compact Executive Committee. For more information: http://www.hws.edu/news/experts/displayexpert.asp?expertid=27
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Karen Beckwith
Professor of Political Science
Case Western Reserve University
Office: 216/368-4129
E-mail: karen.beckwith@case.edu
Expertise: Teaching primarily in the areas of
political parties, political movements, and women, gender, and
politics, Professor Beckwith has special interests in the
United States and West Europe, particularly Britain and Italy.
Author of numerous scholarly articles, she is the co-editor of
Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State and
author of American Women and Political Participation.
Beckwith is the founding editor of Politics & Gender,
the journal of the Women and Politics Research Section of the
American Political Science Association (APSA).
She has also been co-editor of the "Gender and
Politics" series of the Oxford University Press, and
served as president of the American Political Science
Association's Women and Politics Research Section. She has
recently been appointed to incoming APSA President Robert
Axelrod’s Task Force on Inter-Disciplinarity. She has also
been appointed as chair of the Sophonsiba Breckinridge Prize
of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007). She is
co-organizer of the recent conference seminar on Political
Women and American Democracy.
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Iva Deutchman
Professor of Political Science
Chair of the Department of Political Science
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Office: 315/781-3429
Home: 315/789-2587
E-mail: Deutchman@hws.edu
Expertise: Deutchman is an expert on women
and politics, women and voting behavior and women in
government. She is the author of Capital Sex: Gender in
State Legislature. She can offer insight into women’s perspectives as well as the media’s coverage of the
election. She can address the make up of men versus women as political candidates,
how women are likely to vote in the next election, the
importance of reality television, or the so-called liberal
media. She is a professor of 20-plus years who has worked on
two continents (Australia and North America) and who lives,
breathes, writes and talks about gender, media, and politics.
She has a long list of publications in major journals,
including "When Feminists Don’t Fit: The Case of
Pauline Hanson" (in the International Feminist Journal of
Politics, 2004). For more information: http://www.hws.edu/news/experts/displayexpert.asp?expertid=19
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Alice Almond
Shrock
Professor of History
Earlham College
Office: 765/983-1261
Home: 765/966-5855
E-mail: alices@earlham.edu
Expertise: With an anticipated presidential bid
by U.S. Senator Hillary Rodman Clinton (D-NY), Professor
Shrock can discuss in historical
context the particular challenges faced by women in leadership
and politics. A former assistant with the U.S.
Congresswomen's Caucus in Washington, D.C., Dr. Shrock also has served as
a women's issues officer in the British House of Commons in
London. She regularly teaches the popular Earlham
history course titled "Uppity Women," which examines
the roles played by prominent as well as "ordinary"
women in influencing social change in America. An
accomplished speaker, Professor Shrock was invited to deliver the keynote address at
an international conference on women in leadership convened at
Oxford University in England. She also has been an
occasional commentator on comparative American and British
politics for the Voice of America radio network.
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Mary Dixson
Associate Director
Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation
The University of Texas at Austin
Office: 512/471-7208
E-mail: marycam@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Dr. Dixson studies political
communication and civic education from a qualitative
perspective. Her expertise is in the area of civic and
political participation among young people, civic education, and
community and campus involvement. As associate director of
the Strauss Institute, she has crafted and led numerous projects
at the high school, college, and post-college levels to engage
young people in voting, politics, and community
engagement. These projects include co-curricular high
school education endeavors, non-partisan campaign training for
18-25 year olds, and campus Get Out The Vote efforts. She
is a regular speaker at civic education and engagement
conferences. She was part of the team that crafted the
2007 Civics: Not Government research report for the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. She has published in such
journals as Presidential Studies Quarterly and the Journal
of Communication.
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Paul Freedman
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Virginia
Office: 434/924-1372
Home: 434/979-5523
E-mail: pf7h@virginia.edu
Expertise: Freedman, who advised ABC News on
polling returns during 2000 elections for president and
Congress, teaches public opinion, media and politics, voting
behavior and polling. His research covers campaign
advertising, political participation and the politics of
abortion. He has taught and written about the use of new
media i.e., Web sites, YouTube, etc. to reach young voters in
national campaigns. He is research director for the
Project on Campaign Conduct at U.Va.'s Sorensen Institute for
Political Leadership. The project is a series of public
opinion polls aimed at learning what citizens like about
campaigns and what they would like to see changed. In
addition, the survey research examines the effect that
campaigns have on potential voters.
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Jonathan
Krasno
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Office: 607/777-2462
E-mail: jkrasno@binghamton.edu
Expertise: Krasno's research focuses on public
opinion, congressional elections, campaigns and campaign
financing. He notes that young people aren't likely to
vote. However, to the extent they did in 2004 or will in
2008, all the polls show huge advantages for the
Democrats. But according to Krasno, they're hardly
reliable Democrats or liberals, since Republicans have done
well in previous cycles, especially Reagan, with different
candidates and particularly under different
circumstances.
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John McNulty
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Office: 607/777-6151
E-mail: jmcnulty@binghamton.edu
Expertise: McNulty's areas of interest include
political behavior, voting behavior, campaigns and elections,
political parties, American politics, technology and politics,
and methodology. According to McNulty, the political
landscape is strewn with the (metaphorical) corpses of
candidates who counted on young voters to propel them to
victory. "This tends to be a special conceit on the
Democratic side of the aisle," said McNulty.
"Howard Dean, Bill Bradley, Jerry Brown, Jesse Jackson,
Gary Hart, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy - all
of these candidates, to various degrees, hoped campus activism
and the youth vote would vault them to upset victories in the
Democratic presidential primaries. Not one of them made
it work."
McNulty notes that the formula to reliably convert
enthusiasm among younger people into votes has not yet been
found. They don't turn out at high rates, nor do they
vote as reliably Democratic as they're assumed to, although
they do lean slightly more Democratic than the general
populace. "Mostly, they vote like their
parents...but less often," said McNulty. McNulty
points out that although Barack Obama seems to be the 'campus'
candidate in this cycle, he does not appear to be counting on
it. "To indulge in pure speculation, perhaps since
Obama is from a generation too young to have been immersed in
the cauldron of Vietnam and Watergate, he sees the youth vote
with clearer eyes," said McNulty.
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Alex Orlowski
Student
University of Dayton
To reach Orlowski, contact Cameron Fullam, University of
Dayton assistant director of media relations, at
(o)937/229-3256
or fullam@udayton.edu.
Expertise: Alex Orlowski, a junior
sociology/political science major at the University of Dayton,
is an excellent source on how to mobilize and inspire this
Millennial generation. Young voters made an impressive
showing in Iowa and are expected to make up a quarter of the
voting population in the 2008 elections.
He is co-author of Millennials Talk Politics: A Study
of College Students Political Engagement, and author of
Television Consumption and Civic Engagement Among
15- to 25-Year-Olds. Both studies were released by the
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement where he served as an intern. The reports are
available for download at www.civicyouth.org.
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Larry J. Sabato
Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs
Director, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics and Center for
Politics
University of Virginia
Office: 434/924-3604
Home: 434/977-3472
E-mail: ljs@virginia.edu
Expertise: Sabato's research interests include
national and state government and politics. He is the
author of several books on elections and the constitution,
including his latest volume, A More Perfect Constitution:
23 Proposals to Revitalize our Constitution and Make America a
Fairer Country. He is co-author of Dirty Little
Secrets: The Resurgence of Corruption in American Politics,
Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed
American Politics, Campaigns and Elections, The
Rise of Political Consultants: New Ways of Winning Elections,
and contributes to various journals. He has served on
numerous national and state commissions, including the
National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy and
the U.S. Senate Campaign Finance Reform Panel. He is the
recipient of more than two dozen major scholarships, grants
and academic awards. In addition, he is the organizer,
through the University of Virginia Center for Politics, of the
Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI). YLI is funded by the
United States Congress, the Virginia General Assembly, and
private donations. YLI develops free K-12 civic
education resources designed to encourage student interest and
participation in the American political process.
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