Things Political Scientists Like: Google+ Hangouts with 2012 Presidential Candidates.

I just chatted with Newt Gingrich for a few minutes about Thucydides and Greek democracy, since he asked what I was working on, and then I asked him about the debt ceiling negotiations.

I have to applaud Gingrich for the way he’s jumped into the fray with new technology; this was far more engaging than President Obama’s Twitter Town Hall earlier this week.