Convention Politics and the Fall Elections Panel

Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

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Thomas E. Mann

Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. The author of numerous books on American government, and a contributor to major magazines and newspapers like Washington Post and New York Times, Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mann has served as co-director (with Ornstein) of the Transition to Governing Project and senior counselor (with Ornstein) to the Continuity of Government Commission.

Tim Penny

Tim Penny represented Southeastern Minnesota's First Congressional District from 1982 through 1994. He served on the U.S. House agriculture and veterans affairs committees and the Select Committee on Hunger, heading the foreign agriculture and hunger subcommittee. While in Congress, Penny founded and co-chaired the Democratic Budget Group and drafted deficit-cutting initiatives.

Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the Senior Editor at the National Review. Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15, he went to Princeton University, where he earned an B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude. He is of Asian Indian descent and has converted to Roman Catholicism. He is married to April Ponnuru.

Larry Sabato

Larry Joseph Sabato is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of their Center for Politics, and a political analyst.

Vin Weber

Vin Weber is managing partner of Clark & Weinstock, where he provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the federal government and advises clients on issues pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, and strategic communications. Weber serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A former congressman, Weber represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993. He is former chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and a former member of the US secretary of defense's Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee and the US secretary of state's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. He is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota and serves as a board member of several private-sector and nonprofit organizations, including the Aspen Institute.