Tuesday, February 5, 2008

News Sources: Super Tuesday

Voters in 24 states from coast to coast are making Feb. 5 a truly "Super Tuesday" for presidential aspirants. Some of the biggest prizes of the primary season -- California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri and Georgia -- are up for grabs. More than four-fifths of the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination and more than 1,000 of the 1,191 necessary delegates on the Republican side are at stake. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges and universities, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Myron A. Levine - Professor of Political Science, Albion College - Levine is an internationally renowned expert on presidential elections (U.S. and abroad) and political strategies in the U.S. He regularly comments on current events and politics in newspapers, radio and television. A former Fulbright lecturer, he also is an expert on NATO expansion, political issues of American cities, national urban policies and volunteerism. Levine is the author of Presidential Campaigns and Elections and Urban Politics: Political Power in Metropolitan America.

Tari Renner - Professor and Chair of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University -Renner conducts research on public opinion polling, electoral behavior, election systems and urban political structures. He also directs Illinois Wesleyan's statewide political polling center. Renner is a former Director of Survey Research for the International City/County Management Association in Washington, D.C.

Raymond Seidelman - Professor of Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College - Seidelman is an expert on voting and non-voting in America, the politics of labor, political economy and the politics of suburbs. He has been a contributor to leading newspapers, magazines and journals and has appeared on NPR and been consultant to Rainbow (PUSH) Coalition.

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