Less than 60 . And 60 to 90 . And that 90 and overt. Whether you cured by percentage weight or the annex of racial and ethnic fragmentation, weve got to middle segment that that is 50 , whose racial and ethnic identities are activated by racial context as well. So its not just in the south. Theyre sort of a continue on from the Southern States to the central midwestern states, like ohio, going to upper midwestern states like minnesota where it comes from, where my cousin, mary lu, vote solid democratic. Reese is not an issue at the click of a debt in vermont and maine. It is somewhat of an issue in ohio, central midwestern states and the further south you go, the more it becomes an issue both in the southwest and southeast. Thank you. I want to ask a question primarily for David Campbell and colleagues about, i think you were saying the two dimensional alignment that michael talked about was declining over time and attributing it to party queuing and opinion formation. You can see anot
Mother of the murdered black teenager, steven lawrence. Lord [inaudible] a former assistant Deputy Police commissioner. Lady jones, a Green Party Politician in london. And lord finkelstein, columnist and a former associate editor of the times. To put all the new peers, in october a former first sea lord had a novel suggestion to make. And i wonder if the royal navy could come to the nations assistance again, ive been asking people to buy the third invincible class carrier, two having been scrapped, and i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to accommodate the huge number of new piers being created. [laughter] in fact, it can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry and shop. The death of Nelson Mandela was a moment that parliament couldnt ignore. The first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in Westminster Hall. He was fully aware of the antiapartheid campaigns that ran in britain through
History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clinic but went somewhere because she showed them it was not wrong. For a good person and a strong person to be imperfect and ask for help. You gave us a gift and we thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tomorrow night, our first dys encore continues with rosalynn carter. She traveled to latin american as his official envoy. She supported the equal rights amendment and she supported a bill in congress th
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog
A roundup of the days events. Reporter he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the Republican National convention. But today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel Robert Muellers star witness. Coming facetoface with his former business partner, paul manafort, gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. The prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered. Did you commit any crimes with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered again. The two men spent years working sidebyside. In february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. But today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. And he also admitted he embezzled several hundred thousand dolla