Glen Broach, chair of Winthrop s political science department and author of a newsletter on S.C. politics, offers insight on the referendum backed by S.C. Gov. Jim Hodges.
Observers say the election is too close to call.
Check with Dick Morris, statistics professor in the College of Business Administration, to hear whether buying a lottery ticket is a good investment. Business professor Dr. David Letourneau suggests that Americans of various ethnicity and gender benefit unequally from Social Security retirement benefits. In a paper delivered in October to Allied Academies Inc. in Hawaii, he demonstrated that devoting 2 percent of the 12.4 percent now paid into Social Security s retirement program to privatization could more than double a person s retirement income and reduce the inequities of Social Security across racial and gender groups. History professor Jason Silverman can talk about Southern politics in an historical context and why some races or ethnic groups vote the way they do. Silverman is the author of several books on race relations.