Ana Navarro Thursdays 4:00-5:30pm Littauer 166   The evidence is everywhere and starkly undeniable after the 2012 presidential race: old, white, straight, male voters just aren’t enough to win elections anymore. Mitt Romney got the highest ever percentage ...

Beth Myers Wednesdays, 4:00 – 5:30 FDR   WEEK ONE: September 25, Laying the Groundwork for a Presidential Run (or…What the 2016 Aspirants are Doing Right Now) Every four years, a number of Americans make the decision to run for the highest office in the l ...

Karen G. Mills Wednesdays 4:00-5:30pm Littauer 166   Session 1 (9/25): Job Creation: The Impact of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs Small businesses are the driver of the U.S. economy, creating two out of every three net new jobs.  But not all small bus ...

Sasha Issenberg Thursday, 4:00-5:30pm FDR There’s far more to winning office today than meets the eye. Thanks to an analytical revolution whose impact on politics has been likened to the effect Moneyball has had on sports, 21st-century campaigns are not j ...

Ginny Hunt Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm Faculty Dining Room As a society, we are undergoing one of the most significant macrolevel shifts in our lifetimes: the shift from centralized hierarchies to decentralized networks. We’re just starting to see how this affec ...

SENATOR MO COWAN Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm Littauer 166 Thanks to the elections of 2012 the 113th Congress promised to be one of the more diverse in US history…even before President Obama appointed John Kerry Secretary of State and created opportunity for Gove ...

AMERICA’S CHANGING FACE – AND CHANGING POLITICS A Study Group Led by, IOP VISITING FELLOW AND CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORESPONDENT JOHN KING Thursdays at 4:00PM in L166 at the IOP A thorough exploration of the major demographic shifts that are changing the fac ...

Executive Summary How do we individually define “Community” and what do we believe our obligations and responsibilities are to it? The same can be asked of civic and civil engagement in our “communities”. That engagement has been at the bedrock of our com ...

Executive Summary With another Presidential election cycle in the rearview mirror, operatives, pundits, pollsters and prognosticators of all political stripes are studying the results, assessing the winners and losers, and gearing up for the next cycle. T ...

  A Deep Dive into Congressional Elections A Study Group Led by Spring 2013 IOP Fellow, Charlie Cook__________________________________________________________ How do the nation’s top, independent political analysts analyze and “rate” Congressional races a ...