It a terrorist attack. President Alassane Ouattara is declared the winner of ivory coast general election but the opposition is refusing to accept the result. So that its just gone past 11 g. M. T. Here in doha that is 6 am on the east coast of the United States where the long race to decide the countrys next president is entering its final stage polls have just opened in several states these are live pictures from charlottesville in virginia very early days at this point not too many people about the voters will decide whether to hand donald trump a 2nd term or elect the former Vice President joe biden to the white house already more than 98000000 people have cast ballots and early voting thats levels that have never been seen before in a us. And that action. While his own team on the ground for this game but his own dough is monitoring developments from new york christensen is in philadelphia pennsylvania one of the big battleground states and jamal the show is in washington in delaw
Thank you very much. Hi all right. Thank you very much. [ chanting ] mr. Chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, 16 years ago, i stood before this convention to accept your nomination as the running mate of one of the greatest americans of our time or of my time, dwight d. Eisenhower. Eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for president of the United States. Tonight, i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the United States. But i have news for you. This time, theres a difference. This time, were going to win were going to win for a number of reasons. First, a personal one. General eisenhower, as you know, lies critically ill in the Walter Reed Hospital tonight. I have talked, however, with mrs. Eisenhower on the telephone. She tells me that his heart is with us. And she says that there is nothing that he lives more for, and there is nothing that would lift him more than for us to win in november. And i say, lets win t
[applause] mister chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, it 16 years ago i stood before this convention, to a sect your nomination as a running mate of one of the greatest americans of our time or anytime, dwight d. Eisenhower. [applause and cheers] eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for president of the United States. [applause and cheers] tonight, i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the United States. [applause and cheers] but i have news for you, this time theres a difference, this time were going to win [applause and cheers] were going to win for a number of reasons, first a personal one. General eisenhower as you know, lies critical ill in the Walter Reed Hospital tonight. I have talked with mrs. Eisenhower on the telephone, she tells me that his heart is with us. And she says there is nothing that he leaves more for, and there is nothing that would lift him more, then for us to win in november. I say let
Next, a Political Science professor teaches a class about president ial debates and their influence on voters. We will start today by talking about candidate debates. That is my favorite thing about a campaign. I am really excited to talk about this today. I want to give you a little bit of history. President ial and Vice President ial general election debates became a highlight of the campaign season. I it is something we expect to happen. Guess its also common in high profile races. So when was the first debate . As a historical trivia question. Anybody know . Ill give you a hint. No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats Lincoln Douglas. The famous Lincoln Douglas debates and they ran against each other for president. Those debates were when they were running for the senate. In illinois in 1858 and they had numerous debates. Around the state of illinois. Kind of an odd situation. That they ran against each other u. S. State. Douglas was elected by the legislature.
Authors, on american politics from different perspectives. Jonathan darman it was a journalist before maybe still is before becoming a book author, he was a correspondent for newsweek and he covered among other Things National president ial campaigns in 2004 and in 2008. Turned hisently has attention to another Political Campaign in the 1960s. Landslide, lbj and Ronald Reagan at the dawn of a new america so he will be talking about that and anything we will be speaking of. On my left is chase under meyer who has been a practitioner of politics. He served in the president ial administrations of Ronald Reagan, george w. Bush, and george w. Bush. When things went right is drawn from his diary of the first years of the first Reagan Administration. Please help me give a hand to our two authors and we will get started. [applause] jonathan, since your book comes chronologically before chases, im going to ask you a question that is kind of a two fold question. Number one is, how did you find c