“I do think that the June 27 debate changed a lot,” Northeastern University Journalism Prof. Dan Kennedy told WBZ-TV on Sunday’s Keller @ Large. 

Philip Gilreath, an English professor at Northeastern University, said he sees Biden stepping down as an opportunity to energize the Democratic Party in a way that he believes has been missing this election cycle. He said he is feeling both excited and nervous about November’s contest.

William Mayer, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Factcheck.org that the Democratic convention delegate rules allow for pledged delegates to vote for a new candidate. “You are kind of encouraged to vote for the candidates for whom you were elected – but ‘in all good conscience’ you could vote for someone else,” Mayer said.

William Mayer, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Factcheck.org that the Democratic convention delegate rules allow for pledged delegates to vote for a new candidate. “You are kind of encouraged to vote for the candidates for whom you were elected – but ‘in all good conscience’ you could vote for someone else,” Mayer said.

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, notes that “time is of the essence for Democrats” and that if Biden is going to drop out, “the sooner he does that, the better.”

“Meta decided that it can’t profitably deliver civic content,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and the co-director of Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research group focused on digital misinformation.

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told USA Today that viewership of conventions has declined because they have morphed into something more scripted compared to when they were not broadcast on television.

Therefore, the idea behind Nexis+AI — using an array of licensed data to create a generative AI tool for a broad audience — is not strictly new, said Michael Bennett, AI law and policy adviser at Northeastern University.

As for why this is happening, James Alan Fox, a criminology and public policy professor at Northeastern University, pointed to some possible factors: the city’s relatively low gun ownership rate, aging population, and robust hospital network capable of treating gunshot victims effectively. 

Opposition to military commitments with foreign allies is a political stance with a long history in the Republican Party, says Edward Miller, a political historian at Northeastern University. 

So the organization partnered with Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, where graduate students in an experiential learning course spent 12 weeks this spring analyzing data to pinpoint where LifeFlight could be more efficient.

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, said it’s unclear if the RNC is at greater risk because of Saturday’s events, but he “wouldn’t feel any greater threat.”