PolySigh

by Karl Kurtz

Normally, The Thicket steers clear of covering presidential politics because too many words are being written about it already.  Besides, our beat is state, not national politics.  We'll cover the national elections as they affect legislative and gubernatorial elections but not otherwise.

But one of the things that The Thicket attempts to do from time to time is to link the academic political science community to the world of state government practitioners.  In that spirit, I came across a very interesting blog on presidential politics today.  At PolySigh, a group of more or less well-known political scientists is writing "the political science take on things"--things, in this case, being the presidential election.  It's good stuff.

Besides, I love the title.

And while we're on the subject, it's worth noting that our colleagues at Governing's 13th Floor, whose beat is very similar to The Thicket's, have taken the opposite tack and are writing a lot about the presidential sweepstakes.  Alan Greenblatt and Josh Goodman especially have been on target in their analysis of the primary elections.  Check out their politics and elections category.