  
Gen. Colin Powell, speaking to our Fall 2008 Class, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and President Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson,
speaking to our Winter/Spring 2009 students.
Seminar Speakers, Fall 2009
The Politics & Journalism Semester
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"Political Reporting:
Past, Present and Future"
Lynn Sweet , Chicago Sun- Times and Politics Daily; Chuck Todd, NBC News |
"Reporting Federal Election Commission Finance Records"
Judy Ingram, FEC Press Officer, and Patricia Klein Young, Asst. Director for Public Disclosure |
"American Political Parties"
Terry Michael, former Press Secretary,
Democratic Nat. Com.,
and Exec. Director,The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Campaign Management"
Terry Nelson, former Manager, McCain 2008 primary, and Political Dir., Bush-Cheney'04 |
"Congressional Party
Committees
and Campaigns"
Nathan Gonzales, Pol. Editor, Rothenberg Political Report |
"Mail and
Internet
Fund-Raising"
Al Mitchler,former Finance Dir., Republican Nat. Com. and Nat. Republican Senatorial Com. |
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"Major Donor
Fund-Raising"
Carl Chidlow, former Finance Director,
Dem. National Com. |
"Voting in America"
Curtis Gans, Director, Center for
Study of the American Electorate |
"Strategic Communication
in Campaigns and Governance"
Terry Michael, Exec. Dir., The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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"Paid Media in Campaigns"
Tad Devine, President, Devine Mulvey , Democratic media consultants |
"Political Polling and Research"
B.J. Martino, Vice President, The Tarrance Group, Republican pollsters |
"Presidential Politics:
Running for the Nomination"
Terry Michael, Dir. of Commun., 1988 Simon for President |
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"Presidential Politics:
Facing Voters in November"
Terry Michael, Exec. Dir., The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"The Politics of Foreign Policy"
Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato and author, The Power Problem |
"The Politics of Drug War Policy"
Jessica Corry, libertarian GOP strategist, and Keith Stroup, founder, NORML |
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"Congress: Party,
Politics, Policy"
Hon. Bill Frenzel, guest scholar, Brookings Institution, and former Congressman (R-MN) |
"Interest Group Politics"
Terry Michael, director,
Politics & Journalism Semester (thanks to
Jonathan Rauch, for his great book |
"Racial and Other Group Identity Politics:
Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Multi-Culturalism"
[a class discussion] |
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"The Politics
of Justice"
Stuart Taylor, Jr., legal affairs columnist, National Journal, and Newsweek contributing editor; co-author, "Until Proven Innocent" |
"Presidential Leadership"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
"The Cult of the Presidency"
Gene Healy, vice president, Cato Institute, author of "The Cult of the Presidency" (with Alex Hart, Georgetown Univ.) |
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"The State of Our
Political Process, Parties,
Press
and Leadership"
Terry Michael, director, The Politics & Journalism Semester |
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