Good afternoon, everybody. Im mark kennedy, the director of the graduate school here at George Washington university, and we welcome everyone here from George Washington university to our panel on digital complaints, 2012 and beyond. We give a special welcome to our cspan audience thats joining us. We also give a special welcome to those from the American Political Science Association that have come to all day seminars here in advance of their conference study tomorrow. At the graduate school of political management, we are very pleased that one of George Washingtons trustees, Mark Shenkman who is with us here today has funded a series of research an digital campaigning. As weve all seen, the world in all aspects of our life is going more digital and we want to make sure that our students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. So todays seminar is very timely. Im very pleased to be collaborating with this with the school of media and Public
Very charismatic africanamerican was up. What would have happened and how would those statistics have been skewed if we have which we might have in the next president ial election a white candidate . Thats the 64,000 question in a lot of ways. Its really going to be you will see how that will play itself out. I was thinking about doing a gathering about after the black president and starting to have that conversation, what is that going to look like. That was very helpful and should not be minimized. Yet lost under the understanding of what the Obama Campaign expiring africanamerican candidate. You had a lot of technology and cutting edge tools. At the end of the day, they had thousands of paid staff people doing the really methodical drudge work of going door to door, identifying people, turning them out. Theres that. The other is that theres a challenge around what is the policy agenda. Are we articulating a policy agenda which will speak to people who dont vote. Many of the people o
Housand governor debates and share your reactions to what the candidates are saying. The battle for control of congress. Stay in touch and engage by following us on twitter cspan and liking us on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Cspans 2014 Campaign Continues with an Iowa Senate Debate between democratic congressman bruce braley and joni ernst. This race is listed as a tossup. It starts live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Now a discussion on demographic trends affecting american politics. Well hear remarks from Steve Phillips a lawyer and fill lan troe pis. According to mr. Phillips, the coalition that is likely to dominate american politics Going Forward is made up of Minority Groups and progressed with of whites. This city club of cleveland hosted this hourlong event. Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland. My name is paul harris and im president of the city clubs board of directors. I am very pleased to introduce todays speaker, Steve Phillips, president and one o
Take their place. Thats the issue that we have to change. Id like to thank both our speakers for what i will objectively say has been an informative and helpful newsmaker. Thank you to you both. Thank you to the Newsmaker Committee of the National Press club that organized this event, and thank you to cspan for broadcasting it live. The meet slg adjourned. Thank you. Today dr. Tom frieden will testify on the u. S. Spops to the ebola virus. Hell be joined by dr. Anthony fauci at this hearing. It all gets under way life today at noon eastern on our companion network cspan. Also coming up this afternoon remarks from faa administrator Michael Huerta on Airline Safety and security concerns. Hell give an assessment after a fire at an air Traffic Control center in chicago. You can see those comments live starting at 1 10 eastern on cspan2. Tonight on cspan3, pabls from this Years National bullying Conference Held in washington. Officials from the Education Department discuss the latest bullyi
That we will not have enough money to handle crisis problems that come up later in the year. The way we define crisis is a family receives their benefits but then something happens where they lose jobs or someone becomes ill and they cannot afford to pay their energy bill anymore and we can provide some kind of supplemental payment for that. The real opportunity is that yes, we have funding to reach families but it is tight. Surplus not a lot of capacity in the program now. It has been cut to the bone. Host for more information, you can go to the National Energy assistance Directors Association da. Org. Nea thank you very much for being with us. That does it for todays washington journal. This is Martin Luther king day and thank you for watching and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 2014] a live picture of the Martin Luther king memorial. Washingto