Time when it comes to today, what is your assessment from what you see going on . Operatives, party insiders, experts, we poll those who are inside of the politics, and the conventional wisdom is most of them give a slight advantage to President Trump in florida, a state where republicans have a lot of muscle memory for victory. Democrats have had a tough time winning statewide elections here, when president obama is not on the ballot, so republicans have an edge in that regard. We have seen democrats going in with a slight advantage in their turnout so far. Host what is the expectation of turnout . Guest that remains to be seen. We have had so much early voting, it is hard to know if people were just shifting how they vote to earlier in the process. Voting by mail is tried and true here, and people are taking advantage because of the pandemic, more so than in years past. It is unclear if they turn out will carry over to election day, where we will see 80 in some of these large countie
Is still being done. Todays talk is the eighth this calendar year and we have one more in november when we will hear from charles stuart, Political Science professor at m. I. T. , longtime friend and supporter of this center who will talk about his coauthored book about electing the senate and direct democracy before the 17th amendment. That ought to be a pretty good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guests. Since i first saw her in action at last years policy history conference chairing a panel that included members and that will include a tax historian who is in the audience today. Thank you for attending, carl. And we will hear from carl soon. Molly is an associate professor of history at Washington University and received her ph. D. Degree from the university of michigan. She is the author of the highly regarded tax and spend, the welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of american liberalism. She will also Say Something about her current book project which bu
The successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1970, gibsons administration marked a turning point for the black Freedom Movement in newark and was part of a National Wave a black political organizing that culminated in the election of black mayors in cities like cleveland, dairy, atlanta and detroit from 1967 to 1974. These histories feel particularly vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence in the wake of the murders of george floyd in minneapolis, jacob blake in kenosha, breonna taylor, as once again sounded the call for black liberation while raising familiar questions about electoral politics and black freedom struggles. 50 years ago, gibsons landmark election came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man named john smith sparked a fiveday uprising against White Supremacy and its an forces in blue in the jim crow north. Amidst heightened organizing around rac
Pressure is huge when we open the new unit will fill up very quickly many are in need of it as the 1st aid units in the region often have dozens of patients with the same problem patients that are in need of treatment at the authorities are struggling to hospitalized people due to a lack of beds or removal of anybody and people in each group. Or back in the spring medical staff in belgium were angry about the fact that they didnt have the correct p. P. The correct Protection Equipment to stop them from catching the virus and now theyre facing a new crisis amongst people working in hospitals that theres just simply not enough of them theyre also unhappy that a bonus that was promised to them by the belgian government hasnt been paid so weve seen doctors nurses and other people working in the hospitals demonstrating in one country. What that that sometimes we have to make careful choices we have to prioritize this is inhumane it is just. Bad for the patients as it is for us we wouldnt wa
White house in the east room. With 400 of his closest friends. Thanks to mary a parker. Emily wilkins is covering the biden campaign. Emily the Vice President began his day in delaware. He visited the grave of his son beau biden. He said his sons passing was part of the reason he decided to launch this third for president. He visited scranton pennsylvania and is now just leaving philadelphia. We are expecting him on the stage in wilmington, delaware. We do not know whether we will be able to have a president ial announcement at that point, but we are expecting joe biden to address the nation. David Emily Wilkins will be with us throughout the evening as well as she covers the Vice President s campaign. The markets have been watching the election closely. We turned to Abigail Doolittle for what they are telling us today. What are they saying. Abigail we have investors interested in stocks. A very big rally on our hands. The s p 500 up 2 , its best day since june. Investors wanting in. I