Successful. We actually agree with you most of the time, so were sort of in the same place, trying to carve off that middle voter. We dont live in that era anymore, we live in the era of voter turnout. Mitt romney won the independent vote by a pretty solid margin and lost by five million votes. Its having them turn out in enormous numbs. Host who do you like in 2016 at this point . Guest ill cothe copout do the copout. I dont like jeb bush on the republican side at this point. I think hillary is more formidable. Ill mock her as robotic, and she is but its about what she represents to a lot of people and to a media that has decided that they want her and they are dead candidated to the idea of another clinton in the white house. On the republican side of the aisle theres a lot of candidates who are very good, and they all have their flaws. Ted cruz, great on policy terrific debater, can come off as negative doesnt come off in the same way as might marco rubio. Rand paul who is very stro
Claudia rankin discusses her book, citizen an american lyric, a finalist for the National Book award. Hi, everyone welcome. Im Bridget Mullins a professor here at usc in the master of professional writing program and im so thrilled to be here with Claudia Rankin today. An and i want to thank the l. A. Times festival of books curators for asking me to be the moderator and the interviewer today because there are so many amazingly qualified people on this campus at the moment, and im just sitting in the catbird seat. Couple of announcements before we start. Please silence your cell phones. And theres a book signing following this session. The book signing is located at signing area one and its noted on the festival map in the center of the event program. And that personal recording is not allowed. So i as i just mentioned i am so delighted to be here with Claudia Rankin. Just by way of introduction, how many of you have read citizen . Oh, great. [laughter] this will be a conversation. Oka