popkin2How a political party "Cracks up"

An analysis of the 2020 Presidential Election

Samuel L. Popkin is a professor of political science at the University of California San Diego.  He also has been on the faculty at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Texas.  He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Political Science and his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. Dr. Popkin will be providing a non-partisan analysis of how a party "cracks up" and how this has happened over time. Given this year's election cycle, there is a lot to discuss!  

 

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Time: 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

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About the speaker: 

Dr. Popkin is author of  the forthcoming book - Crackup The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics Crackup (May 2021.)  He is also author of The Candidate: What it Takes to Win — and Hold — the White House.  The New York Times hailed the book as a “management bible for the business of presidential campaigning” and  an Editor’s Choice.  The Washington Post  called it “compelling history” and “a fix for political junkies” and the Financial Times compared it to Theodore H White’s The Making of the President, 1960.   His book, “The Reasoning Voter” has been hailed as a "classic" by Joe Klein in Time magazine and is widely cited in Washington as well as in academia.  James Carville wrote "If you're preparing to run a presidential campaign and only have time to read one book, make sure you read Sam Popkin's The Reasoning Voter. If you have time to read two books, read The Reasoning Voter twice."

 

Dr. Popkin is an active participant as well as an academic analyst of presidential elections.  He consulted for Yougov/Polimetrix on their polling for The Economist, and for CBS News on exit polls and the CBS/New York Times poll.  He has also consulted for polling, targeting and strategy in the presidential campaigns of Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and George McGovern and was part of a group of decision theorists advising the Obama campaign in 2012.  Dr. Popkin also played Ronald Reagan for Jimmy Carter in the practice debates held before the 1980 Carter-Reagan debate.