Politics & Government

National Political Reporter Analyzes 2012 Elections At SCSU

Expert Panel Examines Presidential, Congressional Contests.

 

Erin McPike, a reporter covering the presidential race for Real Clear Politics, shared her insight into the 2012 elections during a recent forum at Southern
Connecticut State University.

McPike was the keynote speaker for the forum, “Politics and Apple Pie: A Look Into The 2012 Presidential & Congressional Elections.”  The event drew about 225 people into the Michael J. Adanti Student Center, Grand Ballroom.

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McPike is a frequent guest on MSNBC and FOX, where she offers analysis of national politics. She also has appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, C-Span and BBC, as well as NPR radio.

Before working for Real Clear Politics, an online political news and polling publication, McPike was a reporter with National Journal, a weekly political magazine. She also had written articles for Campaigns and Elections, a political insiders’ magazine. She covered former Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R-Mass.) first presidential bid in 2008 as an embedded reporter with NBC News.

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She holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and in political science from the honors program at American University.

She encouraged students to make their voices and opinions about local, state and national politics heard.

A panel discussion – moderated by Diane Alverio, publisher of CT Latino News and a former TV journalist -- followed McPike’s keynote speech. The panelists included: Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.; Art Paulson, chairman of the SCSU Political Science Department; Theresa Marchant-Shapiro, SCSU assistant professor of political science; Julian Madison, SCSU associate professor of history, and Hamden resident Lesley DeNardis, associate professor of political science at Sacred Heart University.

Levesque was frequently tapped by national media during the months leading to this year’s New Hampshire primary. The New Hampshire Institute of Politics hosted presidential debates run by ABC, FOX and CNN.


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