Communication and very happy on the behalf of the Hudson Institute to welcome chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialogues that we have had at hudson over the last few years with a range of policymakers and important contributors to the market foreignpolicy debate from both parties for many different points of view, this is partly out of hudsons commitment to serious intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view of an analyst of the American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreignpolicy often are policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that sometimes contentious series of exchanges emerge ideas compromise instructions that no single American School mightve come up with on its own and if you think about it thats the way our constitution worked jefferson hated it, hamilton thought there were terrible compromises, franklin was not pleased with it. The constitution was may
Communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dial ocean that we have been having here at hudson with a range of policy makers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commitment to ser yous intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view as an analyst of American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy, often our policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that are contentious series of exchanges emerges ideas, compromises, directions that no American School of thought would have come up on its own. That is the way our constitution worked. Hamilton thought there were terrible compromises and franklin wasnt pleased with it. The constitution was maybe a bit better than it would have been if the
It is my pleasure to introduce bob kyslyak the editorinchief of the hill. He will moderate a panel on how well candidates messages and the platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks jim. I want to introduce our panel. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. The anna coren, and Jesse Blackmon a New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that we visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprised florida, pennsylvania. Clinton visited wisconsin a bit more. The first question would be if we did change the system, all start with you, what would be the impact of campaign in the strategy. As you mentioned bob this with the large states i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the electric college said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Guess what . When it comes to president ial politics, north dakota is irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking close in term
Good morning, everyone and good morning to all the people watching over cspan and electronic means of communication and very happy on the behalf of the Hudson Institute to welcome chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialogues that we have had at hudson over the last few years with a range of policymakers and important contributors to the market foreignpolicy debate from both parties for many different points of view, this is partly out of hudsons commitment to serious intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view of an analyst of the American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreignpolicy often are policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that sometimes contentious series of exchanges emerge ideas compromise instructions that no single American School mightve come up with on its own and if you think about it thats the way our constitution worked jefferson hated it, hamilt
Introduce our panel. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. The anna coren, and Jesse Blackmon a New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that we visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprised florida, pennsylvania. Clinton visited wisconsin a bit more. The first question would be if we did change the system, all start with you, what would be the impact of campaign in the strategy. As you mentioned bob this with the large states i was kind of amused when senator cramer of north dakota defending the electric college said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Guess what . When it comes to president ial politics, north dakota is irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count and candidates would have an incentive to try to maximize the turnout even in places like north dakota. One of the things when we dissected Hillary Clintons l