Newswise — THE POWER OF PRESIDENTIAL INCUMBENCY:
"Not since 1972 has the power of presidential incumbency been so intensely leveraged," says Hilty, who has written extensively on the Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt and Clinton administrations. "Bush and his advisers have used the office with notable effectiveness in attempts to limit protests and to diminish, even de-legitimize, the opposition, intimating that criticisms of Bush or protests against his policies are tantamount to disloyalty. Whether the Democrats can find an answer to the politics of terrorism remains to be seen. It could be an election for the ages."
Expertise: Hilty's primary research interests are the American presidency and presidential races, particularly since 1928. He has studied legacies of presidents, their handling of foreign affairs, their domestic policies, and presidential politics. Author of Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector and John F. Kennedy: An Idealist without Illusions, Hilty teaches courses in U.S. and presidential history since the Civil War, as well as recent U.S. political history.
Browse through the experts and the issues--from polling and the media to candidates' personalities, their spouses, the politics of polarization, foreign policy, and Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" as propaganda--in Temple University's Election 2004 Online Newsroom at http://www.temple.edu/news_media/election2004.html
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