Quoted: “(Polling) is quite accurate,” Barry Burden, a UW political science professor, said. “And we?ve got a number of firms and universities who are now competing for the polling business here, so you?ve got lots of competition, which is generally a good thing.”
Quoted: UW Political Science Professor Barry Burden says, “For an editorial board of a newspaper to endorse a candidate, I think it carries more weight. This is a non-partisan decision made by a group of editors based on reporting over several weeks or months.”
Forget the negative attack ads you?ve seen for the past few weeks. Sen. Russ Feingold and his challenger Ron Johnson have toned it down and softened it up lately. “These are classic close-the-deal ads,” says UW political science professor David Canon. “The music makes it feel softer.”
Quoted: The book is especially welcome because of the paucity of black characters in quality children?s literature, said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children?s Book Center at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. According to the center?s statistics, about 5,000 children?s books were published in the United States in 2009, and 157 featured major black characters.
George Stephanopulos discusses the last minute election advertising blitz with UW-Madison political scientist Ken Goldstein.
Should a college be “outing” students who don?t donate to its coffers? Two high-profile institutions are receiving unwelcome attention after The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an article last week noting that students at two Ivy League institutions publicized the names of seniors who didn?t contribute to their class gift.
Quoted: Mike Knetter, president and CEO of the UW Foundation and former dean of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Quoted: James Kenneth Powell, Doctorate, UW-Madison Buddhist studies.
UW-Madison researchers are looking at ways dairy farmers can use milk from grass-fed herds to enhance the value of their operations. “This isn?t to validate grass-fed milk but to determine the best uses,” said project coordinator Laura Paine, grazing and organic agriculture specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
What?s the best way for people to learn how to handle money? That?s what the UW-Madison Center for Financial Security wants to find out. Established in 2008 within the School of Human Ecology, the center is an effort to combine resources in areas such as consumer science, economics, sociology, education, psychology and even library science to get the public better educated, financially. J. Michael Collins is leading the five-year project.
Quoted: Steven A. Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Quoted: James Lattis, director of UW-Madison?s Space Place.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Barry Burden.
Quoted: “Democrats currently disappointed with Obama will likely be less disappointed if he spends the next two years fighting a GOP Congress” should Republicans do well on Election Day, said Charles Franklin, a University of Wisconsin political science professor and polling analyst.
Quoted: “There is the scary kind of issue if the governor and lieutenant governor are on the same plane and it goes down,” said Dennis Dresang, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If people vote straight-party ticket, that could sweep in somebody that you otherwise would think, ?that?s not the kind of person I want.?”
Quoted: ?There are only so many hours to run television advertisements,? said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?Campaigns wisely have looked to more cost-effective ways to target voters more narrowly.?
Quoted: “If history holds, then this is the prediction of a Republican wave of genuinely historical proportions, possibly beyond the 1994 election,” when Democrats lost control of the House and Senate, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Republican voters reporting record levels of enthusiasm, the GOP is poised for gains well beyond the turnover of 39 seats it needs to take control of the House.
Quoted: Michael Rothschild, a professor of business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has researched the likelihood of terrorist attacks on the United States, said the probability of an attack was still too low to deter him from visiting the president?s neighborhood.
Quoted: ?Making things less complicated can actually make a lot of money,? said Gregg C. Vanderheiden, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has worked on accessibility issues for decades.
Quoted: But James Shatava, a retired agricultural economist from the University of Wisconsin, is doubtful. ?Fewer students commented on my International Harvester sign in my office as the years went by,? he said.
Quoted: Running against Washington, however, is trickier for Democrats. ?The fact is, the Democrats own the current situation,? said Ken Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin.
….Nonprofits building social networks seem to be betting on a lasting connection with their organizations, but that?s not what research on online engagement suggests, says Lewis Friedland, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “There?s not a lot of evidence that people who click online are more likely to be mobilized to engage in the work of an organization.”
Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political ads.
Quoted: But the negative ads can be effective if they provide information of concern to voters, said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies political ads.
Quoted: For the market to mature, it may be necessary for private companies, which have minimal disclosure requirements, to share more information about themselves. ?Getting these companies on board is essential to making these markets work from a legal standpoint,? says Darian Ibrahim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who has studied private stock sales.
Quoted: Kenneth Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin who monitors advertising in political races nationwide, said last-minute advertising is unlikely to affect a race, like this one, where the frontrunner, Rubio, has held the lead for months.
Quoted: The partisan makeup of Texas is working in favor of incumbent Rick Perry, a Republican. The state?s unemployment rate is at 8.1 percent ? lower than the national average but high enough to fuel political attacks in similarly situated states, such as Iowa and Massachusetts. ?There is no doubt that the partisan make-up of the state is shielding Rick Perry from a fairly devastating critique on the unemployment rate,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin.
Early voting may not be major factor in Wisconsin elections this year. ?In the presidential race just two years ago, early voting accounted for about one of every five votes cast in the state, and that was up a great deal from the previous presidential election,? said Barry Burden, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin. ?In the midterm election we expect early voting to be at a lower rate than that, but in close races it could obviously make the difference.?
Mighty winds continued to plague Wisconsin residents Wednesday. At the top of the UW-Madison Atmosphere Ocean and Space Sciences Building at 1225 W. Dayton St., a gust of 72 mph was recorded at 1:50 p.m., state climatologist John Young confirmed Wednesday.
After two days of howling wind, breezes of 15 to 20 miles per hour will feel downright calm. At the top of the UW-Madison Atmosphere Ocean and Space Sciences Building at 1225 W. Dayton St., a gust of 72 mph was recorded at 1:50 p.m., the state climatologist confirmed Wednesday.
Phil Pellitteri is renowned as the Madison area?s ?bug expert,? having worked for 32 years as director of UW-Madison?s Insect Diagnostic Lab. But it could easily have gone another way. Pellitteri worked in his family?s Madison-area trash removal business throughout high school and college, and his father wanted him to take over that business. Even during his first two years as a student at UW-Madison, he was a biochemistry major intending to go to medical school. It was only after what he called a ?particularly rough semester? that he stumbled into what would become his calling.
Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin.
If Scott Walker is elected ? a near certainty if you believe the polls ? he would be the first Wisconsin governor in 64 years without a college degree. And nobody seems to care. College Republicans chairman, Stephen Duerst, says none of the group?s 60 or so members have voiced a problem with Walker?s drop-out status and whether it might, for example, make him less sympathetic to increasing funding for the University of Wisconsin System.
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin
Mentions data compiled by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Barry Burden.
Judy Leavitt had been thinking about the subject of fathers and childbirth for a long time before she decided to write about it. A story her mother told resonated with scholar and author Judith Walzer Leavitt, only recently retired as a professor of medical history and women?s studies at UW-Madison. Leavitt?s fathers and childbirth book, titled ?Make Room for Daddy,? has just had its paperback release, and it is fascinating reading, especially for those of us who can lay claim to the last word in the title.
Embryonic stem cell researchers stepped away from their microscopes Tuesday to dispute gubernatorial candidate Scott?s Walker?s statements about their work and oppose the Republican?s positions. Scientists at a news conference held in a lab at embryonic stem cell company Stemina never mentioned Walker?s name, but they said they wanted to set the record straight about the promise embryonic stem cells hold and what it would mean for Wisconsin to ban their work.
Quoted: Commercial-skipping digital video recorders and distractions such as laptops and phones have shortened viewers? attention spans, says Deborah Mitchell, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin. Viewers are also watching TV streamed on sites like Hulu, where advertisers have less of a presence.
Quoted: By then, the $1 billion, 720-megawatt Yali Falls Dam had commenced full operation, according to Ian Baird, an assistant geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has carried out research on transboundary impact assessment in the Sesan River basin. MRC data show hourly water level changes in the Sesan River of as much as 1 meter in January 2003.
Letter by Karma Chavez, UW-Madison.
Noted: Before you drop a bomb on a potential mate, rehearse your speech with a trusted friend or visit a therapist to talk it through, suggests Dr. Ken Robbins, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: John Coleman, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examined the period 2000-2008 and found that states permitting such spending were no more likely to have Republican legislatures, business-friendly regulatory policies or low business costs.
Quoted: Wisconsin voters are not likely to swing wildly to one side or the other, according to UW-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin.
UW-Madison Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams was awarded the W.E.B. DuBois Community Advocacy Award.
Metro Transit Bus 007 has a secret weapon. Code name: WiRover. Tucked inside a locked cabinet in the lumbering blue and white city bus is a small black box. It?s part of a UW-Madison research project that could one day lead to Internet access in every car, truck, mini-van, bus and train. Starting now, passengers on two of Metro?s 200 buses can get free Wi-Fi while they ride. WiRover was developed by the Wisconsin Wireless Networking Systems Laboratory, known as WiNGS, founded and run by Suman Banerjee, associate professor in the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences.
Quoted: Tim Osswald, a plastics expert who is professor of mechanical engineering at UW-Madison.
The nation?s economy is on an upswing, speakers agreed at a conference in Madison on Friday. But how high it will swing and how soon it will get there brought very different expectations at UW-Madison?s Economic Outlook seminar at the Fluno Center. Quoted: Michael Knetter, president of the UW Foundation and former dean of the UW-Madison School of Business, and Donald Nichols, UW-Madison professor emeritus of economics and public affairs.
Quoted: Emily Auerbach, a profesor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of Searching for Jane Austen (Wisconsin, 2004), which examines how the novelist?s family, friends, and fans created an Austen persona that distorted her personality and style.
Quoted: “I?m not in favor of putting the links directly in the story itself,” said Stephen J.A. Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. And he said using editors to insert links “certainly gives the public an appearance that journalists are participating in commercial enterprises” as they try to maintain their editorial autonomy.
Qouted: Joanne Cantor, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and co-author of the study, continued the study?s findings of childhood fears haunting adults in two books, including “Mommy, I?m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children” and What We Can Do to Protect Them” (Mariner Books, $20.95).
Quoted: The most marginal of marginal voters are 18- to 24-year-olds, who voted 2 to 1 for Obama, says political scientist Barry Burden of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Their turnout is almost certain to fall for two reasons.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden warns the ads could backfire and contaminate Kapanke?s own campaign if they?re perceived as too negative or link him to unpopular corporate interests.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Charles Franklin said Feingold?s voting record makes him ?one of the most difficult Senators to predict,? which helps and hurts him in an election season like this one.
Quoted: This time could be different, said Barry C. Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor, with the right combination of a budget shortfall and voter dissatisfaction ? even if the savings isn?t overwhelming.
Noted: The new study hints that at least some of the increase could be due to schools putting more and more kids in the autism category, said Matthew Maenner, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who worked on the new study.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighted the influence that national forces ? including the national congressional ballot, presidential approval and the state of the economy ? will have on this year?s midterm elections. National forces will likely have a greater effect this year than local forces, which have more to do with incumbency status and the quality of the candidates, he said.
Noted: Although Wisconsin has been warming since the 1950s, says Michael Notaro, an associate scientist at the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison, over that same period of time the autumn temperatures have actually changed quite minimally and fall has tended to be wetter — a stark contrast to what Wisconsites have been experiencing over the past several weeks.
“This year is a complete mirror image of what we saw in ?08,” UW-Madison political scientist Charles Franklin said. “This year the shoe is obviously completely on the other foot.”
Happy cows do indeed come from Wisconsin thanks to a recent web site created by two University of Wisconsin researchers.
Quoted: Charles Franklin, a cofounder of Pollster.com and a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Mentions that University of Wisconsin-Madison pollster Ken Goldstein found that no more than one in three state residents thought Wisconsin was on the right track.
