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This month and next we are featuring a number of articles related to the upcoming elections. For the current issue, we asked a number of polling experts to assess the likely impact of different factors on the election results. Specifically, we feature articles by Andrew Claster of Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates (on ethics and corruption); Jim Kessler of Third Way (on immigration); Celinda Lake and Daniel Gotoff of Lake Research Partners (on the economy and health care); Thomas Riehle of RT Strategies (on values); and Jeremy Rosner of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (on national security). Next month these and other experts will revisit their election issues and evaluate whether events played out as expected.
Also in this issue, we feature a roundtable discussion of Thomas F. Schaller's Whistling Past Dixie. Schaller summarizes the demographic case for a Democratic strategy that makes the South its last priority. Responding to Schaller will be Steve Jarding, whose book Foxes in the Henhouse (with Mudcat Saunders) emphasizes the importance of performing well in the South, the Strategist's own Scott Winship, The American Prospect's Ezra Klein, and Paul Waldman of Media Matters. We will provide links to their pieces as responses come in.
As if that weren't enough, our pre-election issue also includes a piece by political consultant Robert Griendling, who tells how David Poisson scored an unlikely victory last year in the 32nd district of the Virginia General Assembly. His account offers lessons for other Democrats running in the New South.
And don't forget the conclusion to our roundtable discussion, A Progressive Battle Plan for National Security, in which The Truman Project authors respond to their discussants. David Rieff and Heather Hurlburt provide final remarks.
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