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James D. Long and Victor Menaldo 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science and co-founder of the Political Economy Forum at the University of Washington. He is the host of the Forum’s podcast series, “Neither Free Nor Fair?” about election security and democracy in the 21st century. James is a faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), Afr...

Victor Menaldo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009) is a professor of Political Science and is affiliated with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Environmental Politics. He co-founded and co-leads the UW Political Economy Forum (along with James Long and Rachel Heath). He specializes in comparative politics and political economy. Menaldo has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Politi...

January 8, 2021 U.S. Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 27, 2020. REUTERS/David Becker/File Photo Voters across Georgia are casting their ballots in an election that will determine the balance of power in the Senate. In these highly competitive races, every vote counts – including those of the estimated 58,000 registered Indian American voters, who make up the largest subgroup of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the state. Indian Americans have seen their political stock rise in 2020 with th...

Why so many House Republicans co-signed Texas's lawsuit to overturn the election Sarah Binder, The Washington Post Dec. 15, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, 126 House Republicans signed onto a brief supporting Texas's lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The court summarily rejected Texas's bid, leading one Republican senator to declare that the justices had "closed the book on the president's [legal] nonsense." Lawmakers occasionally sign onto these "friend of the court" efforts, especially because legislators can file such briefs w...