Posted in Campaigns and Elections, PoliSci: The Discipline, tagged Posted by J.P. Faletta, Posted by Jon Taylor on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
From FiveThirtyEight.com:
Think fast. When was the last time a Presidential nominee from one of the major parties tapped the runner up from that year’s primaries to be his Vice Presidential nominee? Reagan-Bush in 1980? Kennedy-Johnson in 1960?
Nope. You have to go all the way back to … 2004, when John Kerry made John Edwards his [...]
Posted in Academia, tagged Posted by Jon Taylor on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jack Mildren died Thursday evening at Integris Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City after a battle with stomach cancer. He was 58. Mildren was a Texas native (he played for Abilene Cooper) who went from being one of the greatest quarterbacks in the long and storied tradition of Oklahoma Football to Oklahoma’s Lieutenant Governor.
I got [...]
Posted in Academia, Campaigns and Elections, Houston and Texas, Miscellaneous, PoliSci: The Discipline, tagged Posted by the PoliSci Department on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Obama Starts Hunt for Running Mate — Jeff Zeleny, The Caucus Blog, New York Times
Non-Cognitive Qualities Join the GRE — Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green — Wired Magazine
Oil’s perfect storm may blow over — Ambrose Evans Pritchard, London Daily Telegraph
Report on the Preserving the [...]
