U.S. Election on Tuesday, November 6: VOTE!

Nov 05 2018
By
Graduate Admissions Office

For those in the United States, Tuesday is Election Day. Whatever your political affiliation, please remember to exercise your civic duty and vote.

For deeper analysis of the U.S. election as well as regular reflection on the latest political hot topics, check out the School’s Politics and Polls podcast. The weekly podcast offers political insights from our very own Princeton faculty members Professor Julian Zelizer and Professor Sam Wang.

Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a CNN Political Analyst and columnist for the Atlantic. He is the author of several books including, most recently, "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society," which was just awarded the DB Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress. He has edited and authored 19 books on American political history and published over 700 hundred op-eds, including his popular weekly column on CNN.com.

Wang is professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University. He is known for his books "Welcome to Your Brain" and "Welcome to Your Child's Brain" and for his founding role at the Princeton Election Consortium, a blog providing U.S. election analyses. In 2004, Wang was one of the first to aggregate U.S. presidential polls using probabilistic methods. In 2012, his statistical analysis correctly predicted the presidential vote outcome in 49 of 50 states. He has also developed new statistical standards for partisan gerrymandering. A neuroscientist, Wang's academic research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, the cerebellum, and autism.