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
Its good to see such a full house here. We are more than happy to take pictures of your seats but turn off the flash. But your ringers on silent. If you want to post anything on social media please tag at politics pros. Imed the partnered Events Manager at politics and prose in coming up on a friday night that is a joint effort with George Washington University Also jim madison conversation and a few other Exciting Events and with malcolm gladwell. With the podcast on npr. We have Samantha Power and james comey on september 16. And then talk about the year of the monkey tickets are on sale now i hope to see you. And those who served more than four decades as an infantry officer. And then to return to the northwest a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford. From wideranging leadership roles should command a quarter of a million troops across the middle east along the way he recounts his foundational experience as a leader was acting the lessons he has learned and the
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Cleared off the streets of hong kong where they block those main highways off guard is in the Central Business district which is where we are now and traffic has returned to normal that these protests were nisshin just about the anger of the extradition bill but the anger over the message is now broader these protesters want beijing to withdraw or restraint pull back from its tightening grip on hong kong that we have more rallies planned again next weekend i should also start there was a separate incident last night in a place called good long which is in the New Territories where we had a group of people wearing a white we targeted those protesters returning from yesterday as much as another in the mob wearing white they were holding a big metal devices and they beat those passages i think journalists and they beat politicians who tried to escape from the trying to avoid these violent confrontations and now the police have defended themselves they took some time to attend 10 this part