Picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and results . If so, what was the cause . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, going to move forward in terms of both their program, their policies, and how they position themselves electorally. The that, let me turn microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Hello. I am cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hosted for 10 years by last year and this year come up by the center at nyu. We started the annual Conference Following the historic election of barack obama as president of the United States. Together to discuss the election of joe biden. An equally historic Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color. A find ourselves in transitional and dynamic moment in the transfer of power from the current president , donald t
Ve what changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presi
What changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presiden
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Doctrine. You heard the president wrap it up neatly saying that the history is littered with false prophets and dictators who have failed trying to emphasize things that president obama has emphasizeed and has been criticized for nationally and internationally for almost the seven years of his presidency. Talking about the need of instituting democracy around the world. The deal with iran, the deal with cuba after 54 years of acrimony and mutual suspicion across the states. Ukraine, part of the Obama Doctrine. Democracy is essential before force is moved. Talking about sanctions against russia after the annexing of crimea and they are ongoing but president obama perhaps looking at the brightest possible interpretation talking about the crippling effect that those sanctions have had on russian individuals and the russian economy and again talking about the south china sea, something that is very volatile as china asserts its independence and asserts what it regards as autonomy by Buildi