NEW HAVEN
– The Senate race is over. Lamont won the primary. Lieberman
won the general, and now representatives from both their campaigns
and Republican Alan Schlesinger’s, will come together to discuss
their decisions and strategies.
On December
8, the Yale Political Science Department and the Center for the
Study of American Politics plan to host a conference on Connecticut’s
closely-watched race for United States Senate.
A second panel
will include local and national experts to discuss the campaign
and debate its implications.
Invitations
to the participants went out last week in a letter from Peter Swenson,
Chair of the Political Science Department, and Alan Gerber, Director
of the Center for the Study of American Politics.
“As you
know, this race has generated national and international attention
by becoming a proxy for debates much larger than one political campaign.
It has caused intense discussion over the war in Iraq, the direction
of the country, the future of the Democratic Party and the viability
of third party political challenges. In short, it has been unlike
any other Senate race in recent memory,” the letter read.
“We believe
a symposium like this will not only benefit Yale’s students,
but also the broader Connecticut and national audiences who have
followed this race so closely. Moreover, the conference should allow
future managers, journalists and scholars a better understanding
of how modern campaigns are waged, and an opportunity to probe just
how this race became a surrogate for so many larger questions.”
Two of the
candidates in what has become one of the most closely watched Senate
races in the country are graduates of Yale. Sen. Joseph Lieberman
received his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, while Ned
Lamont is a graduate of the Yale School of Management.
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