The second choice of everybody. Well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose im not the first choice of a great many. Our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. I know, it kind of gets you right there. Giving up your first love. So the themes we will talk about and im going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. They actually ran a very well organized campaign. And at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, dont do anything to stop him. In this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. And we will get to those as we go along. We will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a key issue both leading up to the election and then in the out come. This next one might make you stop a
Lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think hes going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. Well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose im not the first choice of a great many. Our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. I know, it kind of gets you right there. Giving up your first love. So the themes we will talk about and im going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. They actually ran a very well organized campaign. And at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, dont do anything to stop him. In this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. And we will get to those as we go along. We will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a key issue bot
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Impeachment inquiry and theres been testimony from a number of and ministries and officials and soon we will be moving to public hearings. At the same time as we head into the 2020 election there is concern about foreign interference in the security of our election infrastructure. There is a concern about hacking voter registers and databases, sowing societal discord and spreading disinformation. You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats so if theres anything that comes up during the course of this conversation or you need to refer to that legal documents, feel free to do so. To help us think about these issues we have for distinguished experts. He writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of type realism, a populace that to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow and government studies in brookings and is the author of exceptions to the rule and the politics that filibuster limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine is a senior fell
Seneca discussion on threat to us political system talking about the impeachment inquiry and use of social media and the role of the courts. From the Brookings Institution this is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon i would like to welcome you to foreign erinterference and election security. It has been several weeks since impeachment inquiry has been launched and soon we will be moving to public hearings. Heading into the 2020 election concerned about foreign interference with the infrastructure. With a societal discord and you should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats if anything comes up or you need to refer to that legal document feel free to do so. We have four distinguished experts your fellow government studies at brookings and the author of anti pluralism. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow at brookings and the author of exceptions to the i rule and then the senior fellow governor studies at the director for effective Public Management and the