She died in 18 talks about the struggles she faced and running for president and she discusses the 1982 president ial election. How do you explain this incredible president ial year . I think i can explain it in terms of the fact that weve sort of gotten to a point in American History now where the American People feel a kind of alienation and cynicism from traditional politics as we have known it, when we are addressing the selection of a person as head of state for years also known as president , the democrats feel that the democrats and republicans are all part of the same traditional package, that there needs to be change in america and that if the change doesnt emanate from the programs and the agenda or the plants of either one of the two parties americans have gotten to the point where they are willing to make that change outside of the regular two party structure. But how do you think we got to that point . I ask you because youve been involved in politics for a long time in cl
Host joe mcquaid, longtime publisher and editor at large of the New Hampshire union leader. We will spend an hour talking but the history of the New Hampshire primary. Thats all . Host before we get into history, lets talk with the current one. Michael bloomberg is not competing in iowa or New Hampshire in the early primaries and committing lots of money later on in the process. What does that do to the relevance of your primary . Guest there are all these questions about the relevance of the New Hampshire primary, dating back to its mundane beginnings. People are not going to campaign, they are going to campaign, they are going to spend a lot of money or they are not. The short answer is i dont know. There are 10 or 11 serious candidates for the democratic nomination, and he is blowing by the early ones and thinks he can get street cred by buying it, which i think is probably not going to work for him. He said recently that even if he does not win the nomination, he will spend money t
Talks about the primary history and the state of politics there. After that, Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Forum withs iowa president ial candidates talking about money in politics. Host joe mcquaid, longtime publisher and editor at large of the New Hampshire union leader. We will spend an hour talking but the history of the New Hampshire primary. Before we get into history, lets talk with the current one. Michael bloomberg is not competing in iowa or New Hampshire in the early primaries and committing lots of money later on in the process. What does that do to the relevance of your primary . Guest there are all these questions about the relevance of the New Hampshire primary, dating back to its mundane beginnings. People are not going to campaign, they are going to spend a lot of money or they are not. The short answer is i dont know. There are 10 or 11 serious candidates for the democratic nomination, and he is blowing by the early ones and thinks he ca
Michael bloomberg is not competing in iowa or New Hampshire in the early primaries and committing lots of money later on in the process. What does that do to the relevance of your primary . Guest there are all these questions about the relevance of the New Hampshire primary, dating back to its mundane beginnings. People are not going to campaign, they are going to spend a lot of money or they are not. The short answer is i dont know. There are 10 or 11 serious candidates for the democratic nomination, and he is blowing by the early ones and thinks he can get street cred by buying it, which i think is probably not going to work for him. He said recently that even if he does not win the nomination, he will spend money to help whoever wins the nomination get elected. But i think that just underlines, i have all the money in the world, i am going to spend it. People asked about the relevance of the primary when these televised debates, which i hate to call them debates because they arent,
Good to be with you. Good to see you. When did Voter Suppression become a thing . I mean, i know that over time theres been efforts to restrict the votes of some people, laws have changed, we hope that were in a society where everybody is allowed to vote. But it seems like overnight it went from being a thing here and a thing there to being an epidemic. Yeah, i mean, this latest iteration, obviously throughout our history, as you mentioned, theres been different times, but this latest iteration, its interesting because after 2000, after what happened in the election of 2000, you had the help america vote act. You really had us sort of going as a country in the direction in the right direction. Right, in the right direction of making sure that everybody got a chance to vote. And then, what happened was, and just to be real about it, is that the Republican Party decided, wait a minute, that doesnt really work for us. So, they decided that they were gonna basically target folks who were r