W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, 10th edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

David Schultz is a Hamline University Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Minnesota and at the University of St. Thomas. David is the author of more than 35 books and 200+ articles on various aspects of American politics, election law, and the media and politics, and he is regularly interviewed in the media on these subjects including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TheEconomist, and National Public Radio. His most recent books are Election Law and Democratic Theory (2014), Encyclopedia of Money in American Politics (2018), Presidential Swing States (2018), The Conservative Revolution of Justice Scalia (2018), and Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (2017).