Calculation, 272 electoral votes ford, so far for gerald the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. Studios isay in our Howard Penniman of georgetown theersity, stephen hess of brookings institution. Tuesdaysscuss bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now and so the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes for mr. Kaiser and for president ford. Carter and for president four. As you know and all of our elections in the long history of actual winnerthe is determined not by the millions of people who voted for carter or for ford but rather by the 51 elections held in the states and district of columbia. Each state has assigned to it a number of Electoral College votes equal to its congressmen and senators combined. The last of us alaska as three, minnesota as 10. The big states even more. The combination of these electoral votes to a majority of 270 is w
Countrys great leaders. Nbc news projects James Earl Carter of the state of georgia elected the next president of the United States. Looking as carefully as humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the carter column and that is that. The electoral vote by our calculation, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. With me here today in our studios is Howard Penniman of georgetown university, stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes
The Senate Judiciary committee has begun four days appearing spirit the goal for code republican senators is to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to that Supreme Court before election day. Allie rasmus reports live on what has happened so far today. Reporter the timeline according to gop senators, is for the Senate Judiciary committee to vote on Amy Coney Barretts confirmation next week. The in the full senate is scheduled for both the week after that on october 27th. The process got started this morning. Amy Coney Barrett began her Opening Statements before the Senate Judiciary committee by thinking President Donald Trump her nominating her. She spoke about her family, upbringing and career before explaining her judicial philosophy. Courts have about responsibility to the rule of law , which is critical to a free society. Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political
That the arts have been a considerable help that i had from the archives in writing this book. The destructive flash, which seared here she meant to history, was really the culmination of 50 years of scientific creativity and of more than 50 years of political and military turmoil. Generations of scientists had contributed to that moment in physics. Yet when they first began to tease out the secrets of matter, not even future nobel Prize Winners i think couldve predicted how their pioneering insights would combine with exterior of vents to produce such a defining military history. For the time this of many nations this journey of discovery began way back in the 1890s. Researchers like mary carey, which we will see in this for slide here, researchers like mary kerry working alone or in small teams with rudimentary equipment. They started to identify the minute Building Blocks forming the world around them. Blinding discoveries were often matched by blind alleys. People rushed to publish
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