Friday November 1, 2024
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Meeting Both In-Person and by Zoom
Alternate Room: Mather House 100
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
As is traditional, the “Friday Lunch” before just before the November election will focus on what most of us will be wondering about anyway: what’s going to happen?
We will be glad to welcome back our currently extremely busy local colleague, Tom Sutton, to share his expertise. As long-time director of Baldwin-Wallace’s Community Research Institute, he joined us before the 2022 general election to share with us both his perspective and the Institute’s polling. This year he will share his insights about the seemingly extremely close races for the presidency and for U.S. senator from Ohio, and I and maybe some colleagues will also report on what we can see about the campaigns for Ohio Supreme Court, for U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, and for overall control of the U.S. House and Senate.
I am especially grateful that Dr. Sutton is taking time from the demands of his other interim current responsibilities.
Then next week we can discuss what went wrong with the forecasts! Or, perhaps, how the uncertainties that the speakers identified seem to have worked out.
Best wishes for safety and security for you and yours,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Dr. Thomas Sutton is a longtime, respected political science professor who has served in a range of leadership roles at Baldwin-Wallace University since arriving in 1998, including Interim Dean of Baldwin-Wallace University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences and president of the Faculty Senate prior to being named Interim Provost in December 2023.
Sutton served as chair of the political science department and held the Burton D. Morgan Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies from 2014-2021. In addition, he was director of Baldwin-Wallace University’s Community Research Institute, a successful center that engages students in applied research with local, regional and statewide nonprofit and government agencies.
Sutton provides public opinion research results and expert analysis to a wide range of media outlets that rely on his expert voice to explain Ohio politics, government, public policy and more. His insights have regularly appeared in Cleveland media, and he has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and many more. |
