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Keck talks about grassroots voting efforts with WRVO

Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, was interviewed for the WRVO segment "Anger over Trump presidency pushing more grassroots voting efforts." "Often grassroots organizing on the left doesn’t have much of an electoral focus. Right? And this year there is a lot of an electoral focus," says Keck. "I think that is new and distinctive and that is going to impact the elections."
November 6, 2018

Reeher discusses NY midterm elections with regional media outlets

"If there was a year in which I'd be suspicious of polling numbers, this would be it,” Grant Reeher, professor of political science, tells CNY Central. "The reason is that the models of likely voters have to come from somewhere, and usually they use previous midterms. 2018 is nothing like 2014." 

November 6, 2018

Reeher weighs in on impact of Obama on midterm elections in The Hill

"Is it [President Obama's memo] going to help a lot? I don’t think so, given the country is so polarized," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. "But it could help get people who would vote Democratic anyway to actually turn up."

November 2, 2018

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