Thank you for being with us. Thanks george being with us so the race seemed to be relatively close to senator mccain with a slight to lead them some things seem to change now with say much wider lead. R what has happened . Life thinking it was tight early on in the spring part of it was that he was embroiled in a bitter republican primary he ended the winning very handily about 12 points over the closest opponent he guest 52 of the vote. So theres a lot of dissatisfaction with thedi cane in the Republican Partyai and i think that may have colored some of the of polling with the generalg election from some sources of the Mccain Campaign doing their own polling there was confusion among those antimccain voters and Ann Kirkpatrick is actually his main primary opponent they would confuse them in their mind so that republican and dissatisfaction meeting in to the polls after mccain had the primary then they came home that may not like tim are maybe the key is to moderate or liberal. But the
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This is i think, as you all know, a place where Public Policy and research meet. I bring together the world of ideas with the world of policy action. Very happy that tim johnson, the director of the Latin American Program is here this morning. And also want to acknowledge sal low star who had a lot to do with the planning, and this is an event were cosponsoring with immigration works, to tamar a jacoby, and Arizona State university, working on the issues. I want to acknowledge cardenas, a former governor and distinguished mexican colleague and many other good friends. And mane others back at the Woodrow Wilson system. And dan, who is out of government and into this civilian life. Theres no doubt the latino vote was important in this past election. When we put this together we didnt foe how important. This was an event that ambulanced ahead of the elections themselves and we started with a question mark, and decided to keep the question mark on there only because there are many people t
So, in those areas, citizens are coming together, trying to fill the vacuum or the gatt that is being created. I thought that was very interesting because syrians do not have experience governing themselves. Since 1962, the state has been highly centralized. The state to maintain control of everything in syria even if you permit to apply for a open a store. You have to check first with security forces. People in syria have to do this very well with almost no funding or very little funding. They also have to operate in abnormal circumstances. There is aleppo the city and also the periphery. They make up the province. All of the periphery has been liberated. When i was in aleppo i missed the hustle and bustle of the city. The first thing i did their was i was hosted by the revolutionary transition. They come together into what they can to fill this void. We took a tour of the city. Most of the shops where closed down. Some were not. I wanted to find out that was trying to function as a T
Along with fellow columbia whoent zoe ridolfistarr, was also Sexual Assaulted by a classmate. She is a lead complainant and the title ix complaint against club the university. As calls mount for nfl commissioner Roger Goodell to resign over his handling of Domestic Abuse cases, we will speak with the wife of a former nfl player. When she reported being abused, the league pressured her to keep quiet. She will tell her story. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration launched what it calls the first strikes of its expanded military campaign against the islamic state. The pentagon says u. S. Warplanes bombed isis positions south of baghdad in support of iraqi forces under fire. The u. S. Had carried out previous strikes under the stated mission of safeguarding u. S. Personnel, helping refugees, and protecting infrastructure. The strikes in iraq come as the u. S. Won pledges to fight isis at