The 300 Political "Political Scientists" That Came After Donald Trump Before The Election

University of Rochester reports:

In an effort spearheaded by University of Rochester faculty, political scientists from across the United States have signed a statement voicing their collective concern about Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president. More than 300 political scientists assert that “a Trump presidency would pose a grave threat to American democracy and to other democratic governments around the world.”

Gretchen Helmke, professor and chairperson of the University’s Department of Political Science, reports that the list of the statement’s signers has grown in a little more than 24 hours to include professors from the nation’s top institutions and political science departments, including Berkeley, UCLA, University of Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, MIT, University of Michigan, NYU, Princeton, University of Rochester, Stanford, Yale, and others. The signatories also include 16 former presidents of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the leading professional organization for the study of political science, as well as APSA’s current president.

Helmke and Rochester colleagues Gerald Gamm and Bonnie Meguid, along with Susan Stokes (John S. Saden Professor of Political Science at Yale University) and John Carey (John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College), wrote and circulated the statement after prominent economists signed a letter warning against the election of Trump. With Election Day on Tuesday, November 8, the signers of the statement “call on voters to consider this threat when they cast their votes.”

The American Political Science Association a political patronage operation of the Democrat party.