Host who is your candidate . Spee3 i would like to hear candidates and what they have to say. If people want to go hear them. I think it is wrong for people to massively try to keep people from going in and hearing them or who shout them down. If they dont agree, let them protest outside. But to infiltrate and cause it for the people who want to be involved, i i dont think it is a democracy in action. Host thank you maam. Guest most americans actually prefer independents and members of their own party. We found most americans would rather have a colleague at work who is an independent rather than a colleague who is a member of their party who agrees with them on politics. So americans are scared to even associate with members of their party because they fear the aggression and the conflict. I think thats a real concern among a lot of americans who in fact preferred independents over their own party. Host the next call is from sue from iowa. Caller okay, my question is, concerned it has
University of arizona and the college that i graduated back in, you know, some year. [laughter] and it was a time of great excitement and it was particularly exciting because it was like being in vietnam war. She will be one of the three panelists today. So a little bit about the books, People Get Ready is written not only by john but by robert and it talked about where we are in our democracy or not, where the economy of our country is going, where the big money in politics is taking us and the potential that well have unemployment staggering levels if we dont take steps to change the way our system works, our economy works, our political system is driven. And arys book, gives us the ballot, modern struggle for Voting Rights of america. I loved johns book but this one i found particularly personally important. Its about what happened after, before and after the Voting Rights act was enacted back in 1965 when lbj was president. Its a history i never really heard or learned before. It w
So glad to be able to moderate and be invited to do so. We want to thank cspan, which is actually broadcasting this panel live as we speak and also book tv and Cox Communication for sponsorship of the venue. The presentation will probably last about an hour and the last 15 or 20 minutes we will reserve for questions and answers from our panel and i know youve probably all have questions and even more after youve listened to this very distinguished group of panelists but we ask you to hold your questions and make sure we give 20 minutes to your question. Right after the session, the panelists will be available to sign or autograph their books and their books, of course, on sale, you go for that booth 153 which is sponsored by the university of arizona bookstore. The books as i said will be available on that location. If you like to meet all of the panelists, interview with cspan following with cspan so she will be late, but hold on, she will be there in due course, and because i think o
Flip the election in 60 seconds. Any comments . I have been more concerned about the loss of the changed then the voting machines. Quite frankly, i think im far more concerned about the laws that have been passed by republicans legislatures and governors. Theres enough problems there do not have to worry about voting machines. Lets move to our questionnaire please. Tell me how to get the media to respond to the issues you are talking about . You pick the shows that you like in the think tell you something useful and then you invest in them as people. You support the public radio stations, you support democracy now, you tune into those programs acrosstheboard. The other day i saw michaels more comments on cnn doing a fantastic interview with with orrin hatch about the supremee the court. I think a good show can beas everywhere but you need to start making a lot of noise about those who are doing it right and you need to absolutely object we are like the only thing that is democratic in