Gerald M. Pomper, Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers (Emeritus), is the former director of the Walt Whitman Center. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Political State of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press), The Election of 2000: Reports and Interpretations, and Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy (forthcoming).
Marc D. Weiner is the assistant director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a doctoral candidate in American politics at Rutgers. Contributors are drawn from major universities throughout the nation, including Chicago, California, Harvard, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and Southern California.