FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LMU PRESIDENTIAL WEBSITE UPDATED

April 12, 2004 - Loyola Marymount University's website for media interested in issues related to the US Presidency during the election year has been updated! New content on the site http://presidency04.lmu.edu includes:

VP, ASP
"There are compelling reasons for Kerry to break from tradition and announce his running mate sooner than later."
-By Matthew Streb, assistant professor, Political Science, and an expert in electoral politics, and the politics of race

Money Is The Mother's Milk Of Politics
"Money matters. As we approach another presidential election in which the vote seems too close to call, where there remains a fifty-fifty nation of blue states and red states, divided right down the middle, what will, in the end, determine the outcome of the 2004 presidential election?"...
-By Michael A. Genovese, chair of Leadership Studies, director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at LMU, and nationally-recognized expert in the presidency and political leadership

Not Ready for Prime Time? Why Voting Problems and Legal Challenges Could Mar the 2004 Presidential Vote
"Problems, while not inevitable, are far from impossible: the reforms put in place to respond to Florida may in some circumstances be a cure worse than the disease."?
- By Richard L. Hasen, professor of Law at Loyola Law School, and an expert in election law and campaign finance regulation

Why Africa Cares About the US Presidency
"African leaders recognize the power of the US, and view the presidency as being very important in regards to national and global social, economic and political relations... There are three inevitabilities that African leaders must deal with: God, the citizens of their countries, and the United States of America." ?
- By Ikaweba Bunting, visiting professor, African American Studies, an expert in the humanitarian assistance sector, and played an instrumental role in efforts to mobilize the international community and the United Nations to recognize that what was happening was in fact a systematically planned genocide in Rwanda.

To read the full articles, visit: http://presidency04.lmu.edu/.

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