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Trump's Triumph Leaves Many Republicans at a Loss for Words

Edit Bloomberg 05 May 2016
Senator Dean Heller of Nevada didn’t hide his scorn ... “Things that he’s said about women and the Hispanic community across the West.” ... That anti-establishment energy could translate into votes for Republicans in House and Senate races this fall in certain regions, including parts of the South and in the Appalachian region, said Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California ... ....

El Pollo Loco Names John Dawson Chief Development Officer (El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc) ... Mr. Dawson possesses more than 25 years of development and quick service restaurant industry experience ... Mr ... He earned a B.A. in both Economics and Political Science from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California and received a Master's degree in Real Estate Development from University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Mr ... ABOUT EL POLLO LOCO ... Visit us on our website at ElPolloLoco.com....

Speaking of Science

Edit The Scientist 01 May 2016
Swearing, it seems, can be creative, smart, and even downright lyrical. —Piercarlo Valdesolo, a psychologist at Claremont McKenna College, writing in a recent issue of Scientific American about a new that found subjects who were more fluent with swear words tended to have larger vocabularies than those who exhibited less-robust potty-mouthing abilities (April 5)   ... But at the top, there is paralysis ... ... . ...   ....

ELECTION 2016: California GOP chairman Jim Brulte looks to future

Edit LA Daily News 29 Apr 2016
When Jim Brulte became California Republican Party chairman in 2013, the state GOP was mired in debt and Democrats held a supermajority in the legislature ... “Jim Brulte has done a terrific job of fixing the state party’s finances and recruiting good candidates,” said Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College ... But that may change ... Advertisement ....

ELECTION 2016: California GOP chairman Jim Brulte looks ahead to future

Edit LA Daily News 29 Apr 2016
When Jim Brulte became California Republican Party chairman in 2013, the state GOP was mired in debt and Democrats held a supermajority in the legislature ... “Jim Brulte has done a terrific job of fixing the state party’s finances and recruiting good candidates,” said Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College ... But that may change ... Advertisement ....

5 Reasons Ted Cruz’s Carly Fiorina Hail Mary Is Absurd

Edit The Wrap 28 Apr 2016
Barring some last-minute machinations, Sen. Ted Cruz has been mathematically eliminated from becoming the Republican presidential nominee ... Wait, what? That was our reaction, too ... Also Read ... and Her Vote ... 1 ... 2 ... According to Jack Pitney, professor of government at California’s Claremont McKenna College, there’s a reason why candidates don’t usually announce their running mates before clinching the nomination ... 3 ... 4 ... Also Read ... 5....

Bernie Sanders says Democrats should get rid of closed primaries. Is he right?

Edit Vox 28 Apr 2016
As Bernie Sanders has suffered a series of stinging defeats over the last few weeks, he has trained his criticism on one barrier to his candidacy. the closed primary ... "That’s wrong." (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) ... Voting ... (Shutterstock) ... One of those reforms was a requirement that all of the states that held primaries should hold binding closed primaries, says Andrew Busch, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College ... ....

Think Tankers Take the "Bubble Quiz" (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Texas Public Policy Foundation). This commentary originally appeared in Real Clear Policy on April 26, 2016 ... to Boston where they are headquartered? ... Of the left, Rensin writes that ... ... When I took the quiz myself, I received a 50 - in spite of graduating from an elite school (Claremont McKenna College on an Army ROTC scholarship) and whiffing many of the pop-culture questions dealing with the likes of NASCAR and television....

Zoolander 2 Deemed Too Offensive For A College Campus

Edit Cinema Blend 25 Apr 2016
This news came from The College Fix, which broke the story of how Claremont McKenna College removed Zoolander 2 from their campus film series just days before it was scheduled to show the film ... No matter how you look at the situation, the decision of Claremont McKenna College's student programming board is ultimately their decision to make....

Why California is Republicans' best bet to stop Trump

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
The Golden State has a whopping 172 delegates up for grabs as Cruz and Kasich try to stop the Republican frontrunner – but it’s a marathon, not a sprint. @marialaganga ... This year is different ... GOP delegates ... “A lot of Republicans in California feel very passionately about undocumented immigration, his signature issue,” John J Pitney Jr, professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College, said of Trump ... ....

Hillary Clinton pauses her New York primary campaign to raise money and rally in California

Edit The Los Angeles Times 16 Apr 2016
Her oddly timed visit can be explained simply in dollar signs, said Jack Pitney, a professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College ... “Let's take California values and New York values and put them to work for American values,” she said at a rally at Los Angeles Southwest College, inserting the West Coast into her well-rehearsed ......

Sign here: Area high school athletes choose colleges

Edit Austin American Statesman 15 Apr 2016
These area high school athletes recently signed or planned to sign letters of intent to compete in their sports in college. ... Stephen’s, Macalester College Jamie Harms Stony Point senior Nic Garza has signed with the St ... Craig Rose, Crockett, Tabor College. Marcus Ruiz, Crockett, Bethany College ... Jack Gaither, Vandegrift, Centenary College (La.) ... Gray Goolsby, Vandegrift, Middlebury College ... Stephen’s, Claremont McKenna College....

How to Choose Your University

Edit Huffington Post 13 Apr 2016
In April each year, I re-post something about college choice ... My sons attended community colleges for the beginning of their educations, and they had dedicated teachers and excellent courses ... It also helps launch you into what comes after college ... At Claremont McKenna College, interest in the intersection of economics and politics remains an anchor of the curriculum, and that's reflected in the undergraduate culture....
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