faith, politics and public life. tonight, we focus on the role that faith and religious voters played in the outcome of the 2018 midterms, and how they are helping to shape of the political and religious direction of our nation. we will ask who won and lost, and why, explore the context, opportunities and challenges about catholics, evangelicals and other religious groups face in the current environment of political will or station, polaized nation rization. as we consider such questions, we would like to thank our cosponsors, the georgetown institute of politics and public service and the democracy fund, as well as our colleagues at berkeley university. we are honored to have such a thoughtful group with us tonight including robert costa, elizabeth dias, ana gonzalez-barrera, and gregory smith. we look forward to hearing the perspective. john carr, director of the initiatives, will moderate the discussion. the initiative is in the fifth year of offering this forum on the i
fromll hear from reporters the washington post, the york times, and researchers with the pew research center. from georgetown university, this is an hour and 40 minutes. my name is kim daniels and i m the director of the catholic and social thought here at georgetown university. thank you for joining us on this discussion as fate and the faithful in the midterm election, the fourth in our series of faith in the faithful in u.s. politics, exploring the intersection of faith, politics and public life. tonight, we focus on the role that faith, religious voters, and faith communities played in the outcome of the 2018 midterms, and how they are helping to shape of the political and religious direction of our nation. we will ask who won and lost, and why, explore the context, opportunities, and challenges catholics, evangelicals and other religious groups face in the current environment of political polarization, a clean vehicles scandal ecclesiastical scandal and overall issues
kim: faith, the faithful and u.s. politics, exploring the intersection of faith, politics and public life. tonight, we focus on the role that faith and religious voters played in the outcome of the 2018 midterms, and how they are helping to shape of the political and religious direction of our nation. we will ask who won and lost, and why, explore the context, opportunities and challenges about catholics, evangelicals and other religious groups face in the current environment of political will or station, scandal and over all issues related to the poor and vulnerable. as we consider such questions, we would like to thank our cosponsors, the georgetown institute of politics and public service and the democracy fund, as well as our colleagues at berkeley university. we are honored to have such a thoughtful group with us tonight including robert costa, elizabeth dias, ana gonzalez-barrera, and gregory smith. we look forward to hearing the perspective. john carr, director of the
brinkley your mother. oh, my mom meant everything to me and she died a few years back of a massive heart attack and she d always tell me she kind of was old school chuckle souvakian her mother came from you know, it was we were slovakia and goblets on my mother s side and she would always say you re gonna miss me when i m dead. you re gonna miss me when i m dead and i kind of like a lot of kids like yeah. okay mom. okay, and boy if i mister it s just like a whole in my life because she was a real believer in education. she grew up very poor and perth amboy, new jersey, i mean dirt poor and she worked at a howard johnson s waiting tables and got money to then go to clarion s teachers college, which is today clarion state college and pennsylvania and western. sylvania and she wanted she d gotten in a carnegie but didn t have the money to go. but anyway, she became a teacher and she was deeply driven person and kind of had an immigrant s view of love of america and that her kids
she would always say you re gonna miss me when i m dead. you re gonna miss me when i m dead and i kind of like a lot of kids like yeah. okay mom. okay, and boy if i mister it s just like a whole in my life because she was a real believer in education. she grew up very poor and perth amboy, new jersey, i mean dirt poor and she worked at a howard johnson s waiting tables and got money to then go to clarion s teachers college, which is today clarion state college and pennsylvania and western. sylvania and she wanted she d gotten in a carnegie but didn t have the money to go. but anyway, she became a teacher and she was deeply driven person and kind of had an immigrant s view of love of america and that her kids were going to go anywhere. so my whole life growing up was my mom telling me you couldn t be president someday. you can go eat with the queen of england, you know, so she was always pushing manners and politeness, but she taught british literature and american literature,