Panel discusses presidential primaries and voting patterns at the University of Richmond Jepson/WILL forum Jan. 23

January 14, 2008

Alan Ehrenhalt, editor of Governing magazine and visiting scholar at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies, will lead a panel discussion about the presidential primaries and a variety of election topics Jan. 23, 7 p.m., at Jepson Alumni Center. Joining Ehrenhalt for "Taking the Nation's Pulse" will be panelists Lisa Garcia Bedolla, associate professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine; Rhodes Cook, independent political analyst and author; William Frey, demographer at University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Population Studies Center; and Janelle Wong, associate professor of political science and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

The panel will review the individual candidates, their fundraising, primary results and predictions, polls and rhetoric.

The event is the sixth of this year's jointly sponsored Jepson Leadership Forum/Women Involved in Living and Learning speaker series on Rhetoric & Reality: Race & Gender/Power & Politics.

All programs in the series are free and open to the public. Tickets are required and can be reserved by calling (804) 289-8980. For group tickets, call Shannon Best at (804) 287-6522 or jepson@richmond.edu.