Tonights 90 minute debate coming from the university of richmond in richmond, virginia. Tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history. Were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing. Anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted. Anything goes. We can ask anything. After the debate the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Lets g
Republican nominee, president george bush. The independent, ross perot. And governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee. My name is Carol Simpson and i will be the moderator for tonights 90minute debate which is coming to you from the campus of the university of richmond in richmond, virginia. Now tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history. Were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing, anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself if i think there needs to be continuity and balance and sometimes i might ask the president to respond to what another candidate may have said. The format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that i
[honking] is great to see everyone. Thank you, thank you. I want to thank bishop reed, Sharon Baptist church, for letting us borrow your parking lot. Chair. Dnc chair, vice that man can make a speech, cant he . He is pretty impressive. Thank you for all you do for our party and all you do to get out the vote. Thank you, dwight evans, for speaking today, and for all of you, all you do to fight for the people of philadelphia every day in congress. I want to say thank you to bishop hunter, reverend mark tyler, state representative morgan where is morgan . Thank you for being here. And bishop lewis felton. I want to thank Sharon Baptist church choir. Arent they great . [honking] mr. Biden one of the things i most enjoyed about being back on the campaign trail was meeting with black faith leaders around the country. The churches i get to go to during the primaries and over 400 black leaders, church leaders, supporting us. Almost every sunday, i get inspired. I go to mass early in the mornin
Intelligent, impressive servant of yours and your people and that she be made Vice President. We need leaders like Vice President biden and senator harris to restore love where there is currently hate. We need to have them unite where there is division. We need them to provide hope where there is despair. Since we know that you do all 46ths, granted that the president of the United States will be joe biden in that the next Vice President be Kamala Harris. We have a few more things to ask. Give the democrats the majority in the senate and that there continue to be a democratic majority in the house of representatives. Legislativetate branch into a democratic majority all over this country. We ask that there be a peaceful voting process at every polling place. Let there be no intimidation, no suppression of your people who come out to exercise their right to vote. Keep them safe in the hours of campaigning that are we ask that you put your arms up protection around Vice President biden a
Before asking her the first question, i want to mention that this appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy it also has two other versions. Part of what makes her work so interesting is that it makes it possible to it is available as a conventional verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and Digital Technology in order to develop her research findings. One of the things i hope we will get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of comments she thinks digital humanities holds in this research into africanamerican history in particular. Dr. Turner,t off tell us about this book. Dr. Turner thank you so much for having me. The book is about the evolution of black women and politics. The main goal of the book is to his store if i black churches. Commons a very understanding of black churches as already politically engaged. The aim of my work was to narrat