The first president ial campaign as a during the 1952 contests to between 20 eisenhower and adelaide season. President campaigned has been important ever since. Heres a look. You like now is the time for all good americans like bob. Like, bob. Im so glad were friends again bob. Yes ike, we agree on everything. Lets never separate gate separate gate again bob. Never again ike. Ike, bob. Like, bob. Well i can bob really live happily ever after . Is the white house making up for both of them . Stay tuned for a musical interlude. So joint production of American History on cspan 3 and cspans washington journal. Will be joined by Professor Robert mcmahon, and louis is in a State University daisy petals and mushroom clouds. Take a look these 90 minutes at the history of tv political advertising. Professor mitt thanks for joining us here. Thank you good for being with. You weaves start with 1950. Too so that was the first year that tv was used it is a medium for television ads. Television had
Im sorry kelly welcome to the program votes are still being counted in several key swing states at this hour in the u. S. Election democratic challenger joe biden is leading the quest to secure 270 Electoral College votes that would take him to the white house the Associated Press agency says that biden has taken arizona and puts him at 264 votes although other News Agencies have yet to call it now as Donald Trumps potential path back to the white house narrows he is claiming fraud and has launched legal action in 3 states to have the vote count stopped. Racked. Up frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and take trump. Pastors demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland a sign that many here have had enough of us politics altogether. But in phoenix arizona pro Trump Supporters make their voices heard outside an election center. This is a country divided. I believe personally as a republican that trump won in a landsl
Were going to stick with this were going to win this election with actually one just a matter of counting the votes here. It may come down to the courts to decide who wins this election the closest battle for the white house in 20 years. So heres a look at the results so far with some closer attention to states that have yet to declare a winner as we said earlier our figures show that joe biden currently has 264 and President Trump 214 Electoral College votes was constant has become the latest state to fall into the biden column its 10 electoral votes which trump won in the last election now go to his democratic challenger now according to the a. P. News agency which is our main source for election data here at g. W. Biden has taken arizona please keep in mind other major outlets they say that this is too close to call and have not called this state it has 11 electoral votes well that brings us to nevada which has exactly 6 votes on offer that joe biden would need for the white house h
Hello, everyone. So glad to have you back for democracy media in the public sphere. So first were going to do a shout out to begin our class as weve done before. Can i have natalie and ryan come up here, please . Okay. Natalie and ryan. Natalie and ryan are giving you a shout out, a special shout out to start class. Go ahead and have a seat. So Natalie Natalie has previously worked for npr, you are now working with a get out the Vote Organization which youve told us a little bit about and were just really proud that youre supporting that democracy and youre doing social media to democracy media in the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell us how long the polling lines are, which is just incredible. So bringing in, again, that democracy media and the public sphere. We need those apps, my husband is in line right now, 70minute wait where he is so people are really going to need this app that ryan is creating. So to you both, you get a hat. A round of applause.
Thank you. Thanks so much, anthony, and thank you to the Federalist Society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. Im delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the Electoral College be as you are aware, the constitution establishes an Electoral College for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and Vice President. Alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College will provide a practicable obstacle 2 intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and disorder. As we head into the 2020 president ial election, debates about the Electoral College once again emerge over the desired voting of our constitutions method. This debate is an important one about our republic and about our constitutional form