Picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. We have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions. What happened, and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and results . If so, what was the cause . How are the two parties, democrats and republicans, going to move forward in terms of both their program, their policies, and how they position themselves electorally. The that, let me turn microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen toscano. Hello. I am cofounder of the inside american politics series. Hosted for 10 years by last year and this year come up by the center at nyu. We started the annual Conference Following the historic election of barack obama as president of the United States. Together to discuss the election of joe biden. An equally historic Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color. A find ourselves in transitional and dynamic moment in the transfer of power from the current president , donald t
We were down 5 from the peak on spx. Where we are is about where we were on valentines day. Of course, you do remember valentines day. That was prepandemic. All we have really done is pulled back to the prepandemic. Weve got to put some perspective on this as we saw the dow down 800, 900 yesterday. Jonathan im not sure why i am the target of room bring valentines day of remembering valentines day. Its you im worried about. Tom that would be true. Jonathan because you often dont remember it. Tom that would be true. Rosesgh i do remember a scenario with jon years ago. Lisa you are trying to bring me into this . [laughter] for those in engineering and history, this is a hugely emotional deal. The difference from san jose to santa clara, it is like four, maybe five miles. But xilinx is one of the storied names coming out of fairchild years and years ago. To see this merger today, 35 billion large, it really says something about the combination of all of the history in the bay area. Jonatha
In bell month university in nashville, tennessee. Just this week the Debate Commission made a change in the debate rules. One candidates microphone will now be muted while his opponent delivers an initial two minute long answer at the start of each of six topic segments. The topics tonight chosen by the moderator are fighting covid19. American families. Race in america. Climate change. National security. And leadership. The final debate has in the past focused on foreign policy, and the Trump Campaign complained about the changes made as a result of the cancelation of the second debate which the commission decided would have to be done virtually. This debate on the latest kal ender date in recent his it tree comes as the Coronavirus Infection rate is again rising across the United States. And after the president himself contracted the virus three weeks ago. This matchup comes as early voting continues and at an historic pace in all 50 states with more than 47 million americans having a
Ve what changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presi
What changes are in store . Politicals to spread disinformation via social media, now a permanent part of the american election, i hope not. The Vice President for communications and strategy at the Brennan Center of justice, where she leads the and digital presence. Take it away. Lisa thank you very much. Is john on the call . Um, because he was going to be joining us to talk in particular about polling, but i do not think he is here yet, so we may have to wait for him. In any case, fortunately we have a panel here that can talk about anything. So i wanted to start out by noting that in the first 20 four 24 hours after the ballot counting started on Election Night, the media and polling classes had declared that the polling was the biggest loser. Playbook said the industry is a wreck. Lots of folks were talking about embarrassed to support trump voters that were skewing the results. Too many people are refusing to engage with posters because they do not trust the results. The presiden