Sean Richey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. He is also the Director of Georgia State University's Political Survey Research Lab, which he founded. He researches American politics, with a specialization in elections, voting behavior, public opinion, and quantitative methodology. His research has appeared in several peer-reviewed books and in articles published in academic journals, such as Political Research Quarterly, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, Political Behavior, International Studies Quarterly, and others. He was a Fulbright Fellow from 2013 to 2014 at the University of Tokyo, and he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo between 2004 and 2006. J. Benjamin Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kennesaw State University. He teaches and researches American politics with a specialization in elections and voting behavior, political communication, media politics, and public opinion. His research has appeared in two peer-reviewed books and in numerous articles in academic journals, such as Political Communication, Politics and Religion, American Politics Research , PS: Political Science & Politics, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.
