The Statesman

Diversity in the House

Annalisa Myer and David Clark • November 12, 2018

2018 is a year of firsts. We know representation is important, so having more women, especially women of color, in office during this election cycle is awesome!

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The party who cried wolf

Nick Zararis • November 15, 2016

Donald Trump is the President Elect of the United States. That’s a sentence I’d never thought I’d be typing in my lifetime.

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Professors weigh in on election forecast model

Jess Stoneburner • October 16, 2016

Students, faculty and community members gathered Wednesday to hear Helmut Norpoth and five Stony Brook panelists talk about Norpoth's presidential election primary model at the first Global Forum series.

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If the presidential candidates were drugs

Nick Zararis • April 18, 2016

To lighten the mood, let’s compare the different candidates to drugs.

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There is a plethora of poorly pandering politicians upon us

Nick Zararis • April 14, 2016

The pandering in this cycle is even more cringeworthy than usual because you have candidates so far removed from reality they don’t realize how foolish they look.

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I went to a Trump rally and didn’t like it one bit

Kunal Kohli • April 10, 2016

It was frightening to see a crowd of over 10,000 people chanting racial slurs and calling for violence against a protester. They were out for blood, not there for political support

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Let’s unleash Microsoft’s “Tay” on the presidential campaign

Christopher Leelum • March 31, 2016

Can man — the so evidently fallible ape with amazing capacities for violence, racism and terror — actually create intelligence?

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The great academic rift in the Grand Old Party

Nick Zararis • March 29, 2016

We need an educated populous to properly participate in a representative democracy. This is where the divide in the Republican Party truly comes from.

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Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner

Christopher Cameron • February 23, 2016

A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.

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Things that Donald Trump actually got right

Nick Zararis • February 18, 2016

For all his mindless theatrics, Trump has occasionally, and surprisingly, struck the nail right on the head.

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In a general election, the Bern is just as electable as Clinton

Skyler Gilbert • February 8, 2016

At this point, the idea from the Clinton campaign that she is more likely to win in a general election matchup is lazy and unvetted.

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Republican debate was poorly managed, political science professor says

Christopher Cameron • October 29, 2015

The CNBC Republican presidential debate on Oct. 28 was contentious, poorly managed and ineffectively moderated, said Stony Brook political science professor Leonie Huddy.

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