The Oregonian Live updates: March 1, 2016 Super Tuesday took place on March 1. This post provided hour-by-hour news, analysis, exit polls and results throughout the day of the contests. Super Tuesday wrap up With a string of Super Tuesday victories, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton confirmed that they are the true presidential front-runners for […]
Category: Political Science
SMU NEWS The following is an excerpt from an SMU news release: Trump’s victory is Clinton’s gain as GOP struggles to escape lost issues & set course for future DALLAS (SMU) – SMU experts are available for interview on all things political in connection with Super Tuesday’s Democratic and Republican Party Primaries. MATTHEW WILSON: Looking […]
SMU News Military drones and autonomous weapons focus of experts’ talk at SMU March 3 DALLAS (SMU) – Lethal autonomous weapons systems, a.k.a. “killer robots,” were once the stuff of sci-fi thrillers. But technological advancements in unmanned weaponry (like drones) have created some very real strategic, legal and ethical dilemmas for policymakers and military/government leaders. […]
SMU News Originally Posted: February 25, 2016 Below is an excerpt from an SMU News release: Could be Ted Cruz’s last stand, Clinton’s deliverance DALLAS (SMU) – SMU experts are available for interview on all topics related to Texas’ GOP and Democratic primaries, the grandest prizes available on Super Tuesday. MATTHEW WILSON: jmwilson@smu.edu Political Science […]
WFAA-8 Originally Posted: February 21, 2016 [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rm_9nsb6U[/youtube] There will be more than candidates on the Texas March 1 primary ballots. Victoria Farrar-Myers, director of the Tower Scholars Program at SMU, talks about referendums and propositions the political parties have included.
WFAA-8 Originally Posted: February 24, 2016 DALLAS – Six days before Super Tuesday, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are now tied in Texas, according to a new public opinion poll commissioned by WFAA-TV. Cruz and Trump both had 32 percent support from likely and actual GOP primary voters, with a 3.9 percent margin of error. […]
Below is an excerpt from an SMU news release: As presidential race heats up, truth is the victim Bloomberg mulls jumping into the fray DALLAS (SMU) – SMU experts are available to discuss all the storylines connected to this weekend’s Republican South Carolina Primary and Democrat Nevada Caucus. OFT-IGNORED NEVADA COULD MASSIVELY DISRUPT DEMOCRATIC RACE MATTHEW […]
The Leader Originally Posted: February 9, 2016 Fairooz Adams, a 2014 graduate of Lewisville High School, has announced his is running for Place 4 on the Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees. Below is his announcement: I have been advocating for the interests of the students of LISD and my community since I was 15, when […]
SMU Adventures Originally Posted: February 2016 SMU students traveled to New Hampshire to visit presidential campaign headquarters and organize focus groups for CNN during the Iowa caucus. They were accompanied by Rita Kirk, SMU communications professor and director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. Here is an excerpt from Anthony, a senior […]
Washington Post Originally Posted: February 11, 2016 Daniel Drezner says Donald Trump is the champion of foreign policy ‘realism.’ He’s wrong. It’s Barack Obama. When President George W. Bush decided on war with Iraq in 2003, the ostensible goals were to depose the dictator Saddam Hussein and destroy his alleged arsenal of weapons of mass […]