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an interview The University of Minnesota has two political experts who are media savvy and available between now and post-Election Day to comment on Minnesota’s key races and the election overall.
The major races in Minnesota include:
- The open U.S. Senate seat between Republican Mark Kennedy and Democrat Amy Klobuchar;
- Minnesota’s open congressional district 5 seat, where it is likely that Minnesotans will send the first Muslim to Congress;
- Minnesota’s open congressional district 6 seat, where child safety advocate and Democrat Patty Wetterling faces state Senator Republican Michelle Bachmann, who is one of the state’s most vocal gay marriage opponents in this Republican-leaning district that has been targeted by both national parties. (*Wetterling’s son was abducted 22 years ago and to this day remains missing); and
- Minnesota’s governor’s race, where recent polls show a tossup between incumbent Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota’s attorney general, Democrat, Mike Hatch.
University of Minnesota experts available for election coverage are:
Larry Jacobs who is the director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He also is a professor in the University of Minnesota’s department of political science.
Jacobs’ most recent books are “Inequality and American Democracy,” “Healthy, Wealth, and Fair” and “Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness.”
Jacobs’ research has been published and discussed in a number of mass media outlets, including the BBC, National Public Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio as well as ABC, NBC, CBS News, CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, and The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Washington Monthly, The Pioneer Press, The Star Tribune, The New Republic, Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call and the National Journal, among others. He has made regular presentations at the National Press Club and is a political analyst for the CBS affiliate in Minnesota, WCCO.
For more information on Jacobs, click here.
U of M political science professor Kathryn Pearson. Pearson specializes in American politics; her research focuses on the United States Congress, congressional elections, political parties, women and politics, and public opinion. She was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and from 1993 to 1998, she worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for two members of Congress. Pearson received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Pearson appeared this week on CNN to discuss Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat.
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