And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Can democrats and progressives successfully resist donald trump . And if so, how can democrats beat trump on something early to show that hes not an invulnerable power or is the political left about to get steamrolled for the next four years . Robert kuttners one of americas bestknown, most respected and most outspoken progressives. He is, of course, with the american prospect magazine and teaches at brandeis. He joins us tonight from boston. Robert kuttner, good to have you back on this program, sir. Thanks so much for having me. Thanks for doing what you do. Thank you, sir. Let me jump right in. Are progressives about to get steamrolled for the next four years . I dont think so. I think at this point their best ally is donald trump because trump is so impulsive and so crazy that hes making so many mistakes that hes making it easier for democrats. Take for example the attack on john lewis. At that point, there
The other party, you could do an amazing job there now, much better than you ever could before. But there are other things that are at play as well. For example, population sorting. Theres a wonderful book that some of you might want to read by a guy named bill bishop called the big sort. And he basically talks about how people, in a sense, they kind of vote with their feet in that people tend to move and concentrate with people like themselves. People are more comfortable when theyre with likeminded people, and that this is becoming more and more and more so. And that when you look at, say, democratic districts or look at, look geographically across the country, what are the districts the democrats tend to represent . They tend to be large urban areas and close in suburbs and college towns. And then you say, okay, where do republicans live . Small town, Rural America and in the more outer reaches which are the faster growing of the suburbs. But thats a clear population pattern or poli
They facilitate what we call social selling. It enables a salesperson or professional to leverage their network and ultimately convert what would have been a cold call into a warm prospect. Tell me a little bit about your process. Inhouse you build something or tools for your company to use. If you liked it well enough, you would push it out to the public. Tell me what youre working on in this area. I think youre referring specifically to how we at linkedin is leveraging it as a platform to generate value for our employees. It is important to draw distinctions between what historically has been public professional network, which is what linkedin is. Most of is publicly available by design. There is a private professional network of which you will increasingly see within the enterprise. There is sensitive, competitive situation. At linkedin, we are Building Tools allow us to collect values from our own platform. We want to have the right kind of engagement and productivity enhancement.
Backlash against republicans. Why does this tend to happen in second terms . Think about when a brandnew president is elected and you are young enough to remember in 2009 , whether you were democrat or republican, liberal, moderate, conservative, there was a real curiosity how this new president is going to do and howxcitement, passion, is this guy going to do . Y people wanted the country to do well after tough times, and that is fairly typical when a new president is elected. But over time, the novelty wears for myd over time decisions are made, tough, governing decisions are made that tend to tick people off, and that the fresh, new ideas and to dissipate some. The team that elected the president lycian really, they generally go off and make money. So they have the cteam on the field. The final thing is chickens come home to roost, things that you said or did in the first term come back to you, and they will thingsou on your ass, like that come back to haunt you in the second term.
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog