For political science junkies, this election season has been
a two-year dream come true. There are a million studies waiting to be written
on Obama’s online fundraising techniques and McCain’s maverick vice-presidential
pick, but while you’re in line at the polls or watching the results come in, you can check out these
YUP titles for some inspiration.

George C. Edwards’s Why
the Electoral College Is Bad for America casts our voting system into
question, while Michael Abramowicz‘s
Predictocracy can
help you hone your polling technique. And for a souvenir of 2008’s historic
campaign, what could be better than the political insights of the staff of the New Republic
in Election 2008: A Voter’s Guide?

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