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Fundraiser Luncheon with Dr. Seth Masket

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The League of Women Voters of Piedmont Presents:

Winning and Losing:
How Do Our American Political Parties Remember and Forget?

with Dr. Seth Masket

When: Friday, October 30, 2026, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Where: 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA

Registration is required. Members $40, Non-Members $45. Space is limited.

The League invites guests to socialize with friends old and new, enjoy a catered lunch, learn more about the League, and explore insights and contradictions about how our country's two main political parties operate.

Near the eve of the November 3, 2026 election, University of Denver Professor Seth Masket will shine a light on some of the surprising differences between how our political parties deal with losses–and fight for survival. Appealing to voters of all parties, this talk by a leading scholar will raise important questions—and point out intriguing dynamics–about party identity, and how parties and their voters deal with wins and losses and hopes for the future. Piedmont Mayor Betsy Smegal Andersen will introduce the speaker.

Visiting here from Colorado, Masket is hosted by the League of Women Voters of Piedmont. His deep real-time research via interviews with party leaders, insiders, and voters reveals insights and contradictions into how our country’s two main parties operate…from grassroots to top leadership. His just-published book (June 2026), The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders and prior volume (2020), Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020, are based on real-time investigations and conversations, and provide unique–and remarkable–insights. With his dry sense of humor, he’ll help answer the very timely question, How did we get here?

Dr. Seth Masket is a professor of political science at the University of Denver. He researches and teaches about political parties, state legislatures, and campaigns and elections. Masket regularly contributes to Politico, the NYT, and to The Smotus Report Substack newsletter. His recently-published books are based on real-time investigations and conversations, and provide unique–and surprising–insights. Masket holds a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and a doctorate from UCLA. He was the Senior Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University in 2024-25.

For more information on Seth Masket visit https://www.sethmasket.com/

Date and Time

Friday, October 30, 2026, 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM

Location

Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Ave.
Piedmont, CA 94611
USA

Event Contact (s)

Lisa D Gardner

Registration Info

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Registration cancellations will be accepted until Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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