Johns Hopkins University experts can comment on Hispanic voters, the fate of women candidates in past elections, civility in the midst of a heated election, presidential power and executive-congressional relations, and other aspects of the 2008 election.
Hillary Clinton's changed campaign style made the difference last night, says a University of Maryland political communication expert just back from New Hampshire. Her colleague says voters there humbled media, pollsters and pundits in yesterday's first primary election of 2008.
One of the nation's leading authorities on campaigns and elections will address the UC San Diego Social Sciences Supper Club on January 30, when there will be less than a week to go just before primaries are held on "Super Tuesday" in 23 states including California.
Based on a random sample of registered voters in Indiana, Mississippi and Maryland, a new study by American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM) finds, surprisingly, that only 1.2 percent of registered voters lack a government-issued photo ID, and more than two-thirds of all registered voters in the three states feel that the electoral system would be trusted more if people had to show an ID to vote.
If the U.S. electorate has increasingly been ready for a woman president, why hasn't there been one? A new book alleges media bias against coverage of women candidates in eight past elections.
As voters go to the polls in New Hampshire, Barak Obama's rhetoric has become a "controversial, key storyline" says University of Maryland political communication expert Shawn Parry-Giles, who has been in New Hampshire observing media and candidates and citizens.
Latest dispatches from New Hampshire as University of Maryland political communication experts trail candidates and media: The power of Obama's oratory, what some consider a lost art, may well say as much about the state of the electorate in the post-Bush years; Hillary Clinton is working hard to be the 2nd 'come back kid' through old fashioned retail politics and citizen engagement...
"The Iowa caucuses provided citizens rare opportunities to meet presidential hopefuls in person, to ask them questions and engage in meaningful dialogues with fellow citizens. It forced the candidates to fan out among the citizenry "“ at truck stops, churches, senior centers, factories, farms, wherever people gather "“ and listen to their concerns," said Rick Hardy, professor and chair of Western Illinois University's political science department.
University of Maryland political communication expert Kathleen Kendall is continuing a 20-year tradition: trailing presidential candidates through New Hampshire from an unusual vantage. Traveling and sitting with the press, Kendall carefully notes the interactions between the candidates, media and citizens. See her dispatches from the Granite State.
Today's Iowa Caucuses may be the last in which the largely rural, sparsely populated and predominately white conservative Midwestern state exerts such a huge influence on the presidential nomination process, predicts Steven S. Smith, a political expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
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