Hello, everyone. So glad to have you back for democracy media in the public sphere. So first were going to do a shout out to begin our class as weve done before. Can i have natalie and ryan come up here, please . Okay. Natalie and ryan. Natalie and ryan are giving you a shout out, a special shout out to start class. Go ahead and have a seat. So Natalie Natalie has previously worked for npr, you are now working with a get out the Vote Organization which youve told us a little bit about and were just really proud that youre supporting that democracy and youre doing social media to democracy media in the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell us how long the polling lines are, which is just incredible. So bringing in, again, that democracy media and the public sphere. We need those apps, my husband is in line right now, 70minute wait where he is so people are really going to need this app that ryan is creating. So to you both, you get a hat. A round of applause.
Captioning performed by vitac. So there were obviously pros and cons in this ad. Some pros, southern voters appreciated moral compass of ford by declining this playboy offer he got. Jimmy carters campaign was hurt by the fact he did a playboy article. The moral majority, rebirthed the strategy, conservative idea of we are christians, sexual restraint and not just racial segregation like happened in the past. Okay. Im going to talk about the fallacies used in fords ad. First is hasty generalization, when you take one fact and use it to draw a whole conclusion. The pastors statement is not exactly enough evidence to promote and support that ford would be a good president just because he did this one thing. Another fallacy used would be moral equivalence. Thats like saying that one action of somebody is just as bad as an action of somebody else. So they are directly attacking carter because he did do a playboy interview. They are trying to say ford didnt and carter did, hes doing somethin
Governor carter again contradicts himself. Mr. Ford i think confused the issue. Let me correct one other comment governor carter has made. The title question is one that has been confused by mr. Ford. Again, governor carter is inaccurate. Election 1976 the candidates in the campaign. With me in our studios today are professor Howard Penniman of Georgetown University, mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We have talked of many different aspects of this 1976 american president ial bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight to the conventions and the rest. This afternoon, we want to talk about the nature of the campaign , what the campaign is, what it tries to do, how the party organizes. Let me turn first, if i may, to professor penniman and ask him the simplest question why . The answer is a good many i guess the prioritization at the state and local level. Got them working to bring out the vote, working to get voters registered, worki
Transferring from one administration to an other. Good morning, and welcome to talking transitions. We all woke up to shocking news this morning so before we get started, let me give our best wishes for a speedy recovery for President Trump, the first lady, and all the officials who work closely with the president. 3, month out from november americans have started voting in the most president ial election in a generation. President elect joe biden or reelect President Donald Trump will face a double digit unemployment situation, growing pandemic, a reckoning on racial inequality. These problems is the federal government and the federal government needs to be effective. Why it is critical for effectiveness on effectiveness. A smooth transition this year is not enough. Bestyear will be the transition ever in american history. Should President Biden win, the challenges are daunting. In normal times, a new president a 78 day. Bank to form a government, select more than pout 4000 political
Debates. This marks their first joint on camera performance ahead of the 2020 general election president ial debate. Many americans have studied the legendary lincolndouglas debates in 1858 which were not president ial debates but rather for a u. S. Senate seat. The candidates met facetoface seven times, and the subsequent election was won by stephen douglas, and that set the stage for abraham lincolns Successful Campaign for the presidency in 1860. 100 two years after those debates on september 20 6, 1960 at the cbs studios in chicago, senator john f. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon came together in the firstever general election president ial debate, a televise affair that change the nature of politics. Mr. Kennedy and mr. Nixon debated four times in 1960, and john f. Kennedy went on to win the presidency by a slim margin. Looking back, mr. Nixon said, i should have remembered a picture is worth a thousand words. Those debates was sponsored by the three major networks, cbs,