This book’s subtitle invites the reader to look for rules of how to win the White House, and in Samuel Popkin’s mind, there aren’t many rules. “Don’t fall for a guru,” is one. Listen to more than one ...

It’s just a few days after the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, and Samuel L. Popkin is already feeling a bit infallible. “Unfortunately, my book fits together very well with what’s ...

Through this election season we've heard from Samuel Popkin, of UC San Diego, a political scientist and author of a recent book on how presidents position themselves for election and re-election runs.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Samuel L. Popkin is a Professor for the Political Science Department in the University of California, San Diego with nine videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

If there’s one thing I know about low-information voters from my conversations with them, it’s that they don’t think they’re low-information voters. Which made me wonder if I’m a low-information voter ...

Through this campaign year the political scientist Samuel Popkin, of UC San Diego, author of the recent book about presidential campaigns The Candidate, has weighed in about the course of the race.

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been running for president for a year. They've dueled at a couple dozen debates, mugged for magazine covers and attracted a half million Facebook ...