It's time to let that New Year's Day hangover wear off and get back to serious business---like keeping up with the election season. Today, we've rounded up six professors from the Columbia and Barnard political science departments to make their picks for who they think will win in the Iowa caucus tomorrow. The Spectator staff will also present its "house pick." You can state your own in the comments section at the end. We'll be running this feature throughout the primary season, so you can keep track of just how good your profs are at gauging the electoral winds.
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Robert Jervis: Ron Paul
I expect Ron Paul to win in Iowa because his supporters have a greater intensity of preference and so will turn out in higher proportions.
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Robert Lieberman: Mitt Romney
It looks as though Romney will win Iowa. He's been the tortoise, progressing slowly and steadily while the hares in the race have spent themselves, and he's shown himself (so far) to be the least flawed of a pretty flawed group of Republican candidates.
