My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
Special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. As we face a president ial Election Year and prepare for it, it will be an insight that all of us can benefit from. The second is the speaker himself, our esteemed umw professor of ameritas of history william b. Crawley who had completed 50 years on the faculty. Hes contributed in inpneumonnu ways. But its for his excellence in teaching that hes best known to thousands of our students who have come through our halls. Hes received our institutions highest honors in teaching both from his colleagues and from his students. Many of whom through the years have voted him as the faculty member who has made the greatest impact upon their lives. Dr. Crawley has become a true icon of this community. It is with great pleasure that i introduce Professor William b. Crawley who draws on his 50 years of teaching political history has truly
We are proud your supporting democracy and you are doing social media. Democracy, media and the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building a map to tell how long polling lines are. Bringing in the democracy, media, and the public sphere. We need those apps. My husband is in line now at 870 waite wait a 70minute where he is. Both of you get a has. A hat. They each get a hat that says cspan 2020 on the front. On the back, unfiltered. [laughter] you each get a hat. You get something. That is right. And then, very handy, always needed, a pen. [applause] thank you, both, for your work promoting democracy, media, and the public sphere, which is why we are all here today, right . Today we are going to talk about political advertising in campaigns. This is from chapter 13 in our book. There is much to discuss. Something that came to mind for me is something told to bob woodward and Carl Bernstein by deep throat. Follow the . Money. Yes, follow the money. Campaign advertising and politic
Calculation, 272 electoral votes ford, so far for gerald the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. Studios isay in our Howard Penniman of georgetown theersity, stephen hess of brookings institution. Tuesdaysscuss bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now and so the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes for mr. Kaiser and for president ford. Carter and for president four. As you know and all of our elections in the long history of actual winnerthe is determined not by the millions of people who voted for carter or for ford but rather by the 51 elections held in the states and district of columbia. Each state has assigned to it a number of Electoral College votes equal to its congressmen and senators combined. The last of us alaska as three, minnesota as 10. The big states even more. The combination of these electoral votes to a majority of 270 is w
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