While midterm elections usually attract much less attention than presidential elections in the U.S., the current state of domestic and world affairs have made the stakes on November 8 as high as ever. This fall, a third of the seats in the Senate and all seats in the House of Representatives are up for reelection. Thirty-six states will hold gubernatorial elections and forty-six will hold legislative elections that could have significant consequences well beyond the 2022 midterms. Intensified scrutiny of campaign funding and spending, political polling, and election forecasts have created an even greater demand for more sophisticated and precise data modeling.
Columbia University Professor of Political Science Dr. Gregory Wawro moderates a discussion led by academics and political professionals on the unique challenges analysts and strategists have faced this election cycle, and what we can learn from the torrent of data surrounding the midterms. The Columbia University School of Professional Studies and the Columbia University Department of Political Science cordially invite you to this in-person event.
Panelists:
Gregory Wawro specializes in American politics (including Congress, elections, campaign finance, judicial politics, and political economy) and political methodology. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
Donald P. Green is the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and the author of five books and more than one hundred essays.
Shailagh Murray was appointed Executive Vice President for Public Affairs at Columbia University in September 2018. She oversees the Office of Communications and Public Affairs and the Office of Government and Community Affairs.
Robert Y. Shapiro is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the President of The Academy of Political Science and Editor of its journal, Political Science Quarterly.
Aaron Strauss is the program director at OpenLabs where he aligns creative content with results from rigorous in-survey and real-world experiments.
Doug Usher, partner at Forbes Tate Partners, has spent the last two decades building insights that have helped change the strategic trajectory of major corporations, industry associations, and political campaigns.
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