Zócalo Public SquarePolitical Scientist Samuel L. Popkin – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Political Scientist Samuel L. Popkin https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/10/political-scientist-samuel-l-popkin/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/10/political-scientist-samuel-l-popkin/personalities/in-the-green-room/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:01:50 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=43836 UC San Diego political scientist Samuel L. Popkin is the author of The Candidate: What it Takes to Win—and Hold—the White House, for which he studied not the winners but the losing candidates. Before participating in a conversation about the costs of a U.S. presidential election, he told us in the Zócalo green room that the strangest job he’s ever had was dressing up as Mr. Peanut to give out samples—eclipsing his work as a campaign consultant to the likes of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

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