Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions

The writing is clear, and even the more technical sections are approachable...The book covers much of the ground that I wish to cover in my course. -- James A. McCann, Purdue University Praise for the First Edition: [A] very good text for discussing the then upcoming presidential election. It offered a good mix of voting data and very timely analysis. Students could easily see the relevance of the challenges to the "conventional wisdom". -- Paul R. Schulman, Mills College The perfect election year supplement for my American politics text. -- Leonard Williams, Manchester College This book is political science at its best. The authors couple compelling empirical evidence with keen insight to set the record straight on a wide range of common misunderstandings about American politics and elections. Conventional Wisdom should be required reading for any course in American elections-and maybe even for the public at large. -- Costas Panagopoulos, Director, Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy, Fordham University To have a text that is very readable without sacrificing the subtleties and sophistication of the content is a blessing. -- Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College