Georgia democratic candidate for president. We thank you, president ford and we thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. There there are to be three debates between the president ial candidates and one between the vicepresident ial candidates. All are being arranged by the league of women voters education fund. Tonights debate, the first between president ial candidates in sixteen years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before an audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The Television Audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss
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Looking as carefully as is humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the Carter Carter column, and that is that. The electoral vote, by our calculations, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon in washington. With me here today in our studios is professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university, mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial president ial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and in popular votes for mr. Carter and for president ford. As you know, in this bicentennial president ial election, as in all of our elections in the long history of the republic, the actual winner is determined not by the millions of people who vote for but ratheror ford, by the 51 elections held in
Test test test test test test test test test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 we have 2. 5 billion more out of work than were when we took office. This touches human beings. I was in a city in pennsylvania not too long ago near here, and there were about 4 or 5,000 people in the audience. It was on a train trip. I said how many adults here are out of work. About 1,000 raised their hands. Mr. Ford actually has fewer people in the private sector without jobs than when he took office. He talks about a success. 7. 9 unemployment its a terrible tragedy in this country. He would he learned how to match unemployment with inflation. Thats right. We have the highest inflation weve had in 25 years right now except under this administration, and that was 50 years ago. Weve got the highest unemployment under the Ford Administration since the depression this. Affects human beings. His insensitivity providing people a chance to work has made this a Welfare Administrat
Between president ial candidates in 16 years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before the audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss of a coin. He will have up to three minutes to answer. One followup question will be permitted with up to two minutes to reply. President ford will then have two minutes to respond. The next question will go to president ford with the same time arrangements, and questions will continue to be alternated between the candidates. Each man will make a threeminute stateme