Welcome

My name is Josh Putnam and I'm a PhD student in the Department of Political Science within the School of Public and International Affairs at UGA. Broadly, I study American government and political methodology. More specifically however, my research interests involve presidential nomination campaigns. I'm currently writing a dissertation on state decisions to frontload presidential primaries. If you are interested in the subject as it relates to the 2008 election please feel free to check out my blog: Frontloading HQ. There is an RSS/Atom subscription feed below and the blog's archive is in the leftt sidebar as well.

Most of the site's navigation can be done through the links to the left (Internet Explorer doesn't seem to like the sidebars on the frontpage for some reason, so you may need to hit refresh or the green "go" arrow to the right of the site's address to view it properly.). I've tried to put together some links that will be of interest to others as well as myself.   Also, feel free to check out the presidential candidate tracker gadget and the video links to the right.

If you are in my classes click on the "View My Classes Page" link in the left sidebar for course related information. 

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