The 2014 Election: What Did We Learn and What Can We Expect?

Friday, Nov. 21 at 12 noon: John Baughman, Associate Professor of Politics, Bates College, ”The 2014 Election: What Did We Learn and What Can We Expect?” 

Prof. Baughman is in his fifteenth year teaching at Bates and is a former chair of the Politics Department at the college.  Prior to coming to Bates, he served as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, as well as on the staffs of U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and British Member of Parliament Rhodri Morgan.

A specialist in American politics, Baughman is the author of Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives and is currently working on a book tentatively titled The People’s House: Representation and Responsiveness in the Antebellum House of Representatives.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and his A.B. from Harvard College.

In this Forum presentation, Baughman will take an inside look at some of voting patterns that emerged from this month’s election, putting them in context with recent electoral history.  He will also provide some insight into the connection between campaigning and governing and plans to close the talk with a look ahead to 2016 and beyond to see what 2014 might tell us about future elections.

Admission is free to all Forum events and no reservations are required. This program is a bring-your-own brown-bag lunch event.  Coffee, tea and bottled water will be available on site at the library.

The Great Falls Forum is co-sponsored by the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, Bates College, Lewiston Public Library and the Sun Journal. The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street. More information on Thursday’s lecture or other upcoming events in the Great Falls Forum series is available by contacting the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3135 or via email at LPLReference@gmail.com