So its my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editor in chief of the hill the wmata rate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm ornstein of aei. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. Brianna carmen, of vote latino, and jesse wegman of the New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly it was ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania. Democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more but the first question would be if we did change the system, norm, would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . As you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of in use when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Well, guess what. When comes to president ial politics, nort
It is my pleasure to introduce the moderator. We will have a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote . I want to introduce our panel. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Ohio, North Carolina, florida, pennsylvania democrats wish that she had visited wisconsin more. Visited wisconsin more. If we did change the system, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategies . They visited the large states. Cramermused when senator of north dakota defended the Electoral College, saying, this would make North Carolina irrelevant north dakota irrelevant. President ial to politics, north dakota is irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking awfully close in terms of popular vote. Then every vote would count. And candidates would have an incentive to try to maximize the turnout in places like nort
Moderate a panel on havel candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I wanted to introduce our panel. Viannaichael steele, carmen, and jesse wegman. Statesooking back at the visited by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania. Democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin more. If we did change the system, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategies . They visited the large states. I was amused when senator cramer of north dakota, defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Guess what. When it comes to president of politics, north dakota is totally irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count and candidates would have an incentive to try to maximize the turnout in places like north dakota. Things when we dissected Hillary Clintons loss , one
See some ice on area roads and sidewalks especially. So, were going to have much more on this. Were going to take you hour by hour. Something we havent seen in close to three weeks, guys. Were going to like this one. Boy, all right. Might be flipflop weather. Lots of schools in our area decided to let the kids out early so they could get home safely. Big changes today and perhaps tomorrow morning. News4s amee cho continues our Team Coverage now in aspen hill. She talked to parents and administrators about the days tough call. Hey, amee. Reporter hi, jim and wendy. It was tough because they had to make that call early in the morning when they still werent sure what was going to happen. Its looking okay out here. It was sleeting a little bit on and off earlier. Roads are looking good. We did see a lot of early school closures. As you can imagine that made for some very happy kids and their parents took the news in stride, too. As buses loaded up and kids headed home, one student had a ve
In dulles. These are some of the areas we have had issues with around the south, ashburn, sterling, ive seen a lot of reports about herndon. Ive seen ice and spots over towards gaithersburg. Up towards frederick county. Once again, ice is going to be a big issue especially on the secondary roads, sidewalks and on the driveways. Remember that, guys. Much more on this. Ill see you back here in about ten minutes. Okay, doug, thank you. Our Team Coverage continues with the difficult decision for School Superintendents today. Many made the move to close school early before the weather moved in. That means parents had to make an unexpected trip to gather up their children. News4s amee cho is in aspen hill tonight. Amee, most parents taking it all in stride . Reporter hi, doreen. Yeah, they are. As you take a look behind me, you can see the roads arent that bad right now. That is some good news. And the parents we talked to said they didnt mind the early release. They just want their kids to