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Don’t Trust The Election Forecasts

September 3, 2024 By Justin Grimmer

via Politico

Voting ballot: Absentee voting by mail with ballot envelope on USA flag and gavel stock photo

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Benjamin Ginsberg , Jocelyn Benson, And David Becker

August 2, 2024 interview with Benjamin Ginsberg

via Firing Line

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So It Goes: Niall Ferguson On Good Books, Bad Screens, A 1968 Redux, And Hobbits

In a topsy-turvy election year, does America’s 2024 presidential contest summon ghosts from 1968 — or, is a late-breaking 1980-style landslide in the cards?

August 26, 2024 interview with Niall Ferguson , Bill Whalen

via GoodFellows

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Windy City—And Less So Without A Newsom Sidewinder

August 22, 2024 By Bill Whalen

via California on Your Mind

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The ‘Barbenheimer’ Election

August 20, 2024 By Niall Ferguson

via The Free Press

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Through The Political Looking Glass

August 22, 2024 By Michael J. Boskin

via Project Syndicate

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Douglas Rivers

Senior Fellow

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Douglas Rivers

Senior Fellow

Douglas Rivers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Chief Scientist at YouGov PLC, a global polling firm.

Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

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Morris P. Fiorina

Senior Fellow

Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation: how well the positions of elected officials reflect the preferences of the public. During the course of his forty-year career Fiorina has published numerous articles and books on national politics including Congress—Keystone of the Washington Establishment (Yale University Press, 1977), Retrospective Voting in American National Elections (Yale University Press, 1981), and Divided Government (Allyn & Bacon, 1992). The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence, coauthored with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn (Harvard University Press, 1987), won the 1988 Richard F. Fenno Prize. He is also coeditor of Continuity and Change in House Elections (Stanford University Press and Hoover Press, 2000). The third edition of his 2004 groundbreaking book Culture War: The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope) was published in 2011. He coedited Can We Talk? The Rise of Rude, Nasty, Stubborn Politics (Pearson, 2013). Most recently he published Unstable Majorities (Hoover, 2017). Fiorina has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals on political science, law, political economy, and public policy. From 1986 to 1990 he was chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. Fiorina received his BA degree from Allegheny College and his MA and PhD from the University of Rochester. He lives in Portola Valley, California.