looking as carefully as is humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the carter: carter column, and that is that. the electoral vote, by our calculations, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. election 1976, day of decision. this is richard scanlon in washington. with me here today in our studios is professor howard penniman of georgetown university, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. today, we are going to try to discuss tuesday s bicentennial presidential election here in the united states. not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and in popular votes for mr. carter and for president ford. as you know, in this bicentennial presidential election, as in all of our elections in the long history of the republic, the actual winner is determined not by the millions of people who vote for but ratheror ford, by the 5
election system and the 1976 presidential campaign to international audiences. governor carter, again, is talking in broad generalities. i think this is an instance of deliberate distortion. and if mr. carter alleges that his holiness by signing that has done it, he is totally inaccurate. i m not criticizing his ho holiness of pope, i was talking about mr. ford. governor carter again contradicts himself. i think so he confused the issue. let me correct one other comment. the panamanian question is one confused by mr. ford. again, governor carter is inaccurate. election 1976, the candidates and the campaign. this is richard in washington. with me in our studios today are professor howard pennyman of georgetown university and mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. we have talked of a of many different aspects of this 1976 american presidential bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight through the con
about mr. ford. governor carter again contradicts himself. i think so he confused the issue. let me correct one other comment. the panamanian question is one confused by mr. ford. again, governor carter is inaccurate. election 1976, the candidates and the campaign. this is richard in washington. with me in our studios today are professor howard penniman of georgetown university and mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. we have talked of a of many different aspects of this 1976 american presidential bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight through the conventions and the rest. this afternoon we want to talk about the nature of the campaign, what the campaign is, what it tries to do, how the party organizes it. let me turn first, if i may, to professor penniman and ask him that simplest question, why? well, why? the answer is a good many things. among other things, i have to get out and get the party organ
calculation, 272 electoral votes ford, so far for gerald the opponent. election 1976, day of decision. this is richard scanlon of washington. studios isay in our howard penniman of georgetown theersity, stephen hess of brookings institution. tuesday sscuss bicentennial election here in the united states. not every last vote has even been counted now and so the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes for mr. kaiser and for president ford. carter and for president four. as you know and all of our elections in the long history of actual winnerthe is determined not by the millions of people who voted for carter or for ford but rather by the 51 elections held in the states and district of columbia. each state has assigned to it a number of electoral college votes equal to its congressmen and senators combined. the last of us alaska as three, minnesota as 10. the big states even more. the combination of these electoral votes to
in 1976 the presidential campaign was explained to international audiences. governor carter again is talking in broad generalities. i think this is an instance of deliberate disclosure. if mr. carter alleges that his voting by signing that is done, he is inaccurate. governor carter again contradicts himself. mr. ford i think confused the issue. let me correct one other comment governor carter has made. the title question is one that has been confused by mr. ford. again, governor carter is inaccurate. election 1976, the candidates and the campaign. with me in our studios today are professor howard penniman of georgetown university, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution. we have talked of many different aspects of this 1976 american presidential bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight to the conventions and the rest. this afternoon, we want to talk about the nature of the campaign, what the campaign