Hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Good morning. I would like to welcome all of you to our final preelection panel. We will be back on november 5 midday to look at the results thus far. Today, i am joined by my colleagues. We have a lot of ground to cover and im going to start by asking each of the panelists a few questions. We are going to start today with of a guide to the electoral college. His volume is all you need to understand the complexities of the electoral college. He is also an expert in absentee voting. What percent of the population do you think will vote early or absentee and can you tell us what we are learning from states such as texas . The technical answer is a lot. Many people are going to vote. Many more than ever. A huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. We have been seeing a lot more voting in this realm before. We saw 41 of the American People vote i mail or early in person in 2016. The early results are stunning. As states start t
Hosted by the American Enterprise institute, this is an hour, 20 minutes. Good morning everyone. Im a senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute at would like to welcome you to our final preelection election live panel. We will be back november 5 midday to look at the results thus far. Today, i am joined by my yearagues and by john 14 and henry olson of the ethics and public all the see center. We have a lot of ground to cover, and i am going to start by asking each of the panelists a few questions. They promised concise answers so we can move through a lot of material. Let me summarize the polls. Yesterday, President Trump says he wasnt scared auntie criticized the polls once again. Lets look at the poll numbers. Polls seven major conducted since september 15, bided has been at or above 50 in 133. Trump has been at or above 35 in only 41. His reading has barely moved. Ofn for tier is editor after the people vote, a guide to the electoral college, a slim volume that is all you
Each of the panelists a few questions. We are going to start today with of a guide to the electoral college. His volume is all you need to understand the complexities of the electoral college. He is also an expert in absentee voting. What percent of the population do you think will vote early or absentee and can you tell us what we are learning from states such as texas . The technical answer is a lot. Many people are going to vote. Many more than ever. A huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. We have been seeing a lot more voting in this realm before. We saw 41 of the American People vote i mail or early in person in 2016. The early results are stunning. As states start to open up, you see enthusiasm go toward early methods of voting. I give credit to a university of florida professor who spent time counting these things. As of today, over 31 million votes have been cast that we know of. There were roughly 56 million of them in 2016. See certainly over 50 of the v
And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig