political science professor

Leatherwood goes after Blackburn on effectiveness, ethics, but faces fund-raising troubles

Barack Obama throws his muscle behind a pro-war moderate in contested Democratic primary:

Summary: John Geer Vanderbilt University political science professor and Elbert Ventura, research fellow with Media Matters for America.

After decades of empty-handed, self-serving Congressmen in the 1st District, I too am wondering if the seat might fall to a Democrat this fall. Randy Neal at TennViews points to some of the elements in this year's race.

Yes, says ABC News:

...[T]he growing role played by political spouses in general makes requests like Obama's impossible to fulfill. "It's not possible to put it off-limits," said Jeffrey Berry, a political science professor at Tufts University.

With John Edwards endorsement of Barack Obama, some Democrats are looking to Al Gore to finally step in and end this madness:

“The Al Gore watch starts now,” said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Blake Fontenay traces the decline and the prospects for the future of the Ford family political dynasty:

Marcus Pohlmann, a political science professor at Rhodes College, questions whether the Ford family ever was a “political machine” in the strictest sense.

John Rodgers over at the Nashville City Paper says Bredesen is staying quiet on who he will be supporting at the convention: