AEI Election Watch 2008 (Session 3)

Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

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About This Event

AEI’s Election Watch series, which began in 1982, is the longest-running election program in Washington. The 2008 presidential election campaign has been full of unexpected twists and turns with more in store. At this event, Election Watch panelists will discuss results of the Super Tuesday brawl, the mid-Atlantic Listen to Audio
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Download Audio as MP3 primaries, and the remaining contests. In addition, participants will look at the candidates’ performances, polling data on the presidential race, and how congressional and gubernatorial elections are shaping up. The event will be followed by a day-long conference on election demographics entitled “The Future of Red, Blue, and Purple America: 2008 and Beyond.”

The charge for this session is $60.
The charge for the ten-session series is $400.

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Agenda

8:00 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast

8:15	Panelists:	Michael Barone, AEI
		Karlyn Bowman, AEI
		Norman J. Ornstein, AEI
		John C. Fortier, AEI
	Moderator:	James K. Glassman, AEI
9:15	Adjournment

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Michael
Barone

Michael Barone, a political analyst and journalist, studies politics, American government, and campaigns and elections. The principal coauthor of the annual Almanac of American Politics (National Journal Group), he has written many books on American politics and history. Barone is also a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner.

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Phone: 202-862-7174
Email: michael.barone@aei.org
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Name: Andrew Rugg
Phone: 202-862-5917
Email: andrew.rugg@aei.org

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Karlyn
Bowman

Karlyn Bowman compiles and analyzes American public opinion using available polling data on a variety of subjects, including the economy, taxes, the state of workers in America, environment and global warming, attitudes about homosexuality and gay marriage, NAFTA and free trade, the war in Iraq, and women's attitudes. In addition, Ms. Bowman has studied and spoken about the evolution of American politics because of key demographic and geographic changes. She has often lectured on the role of think tanks in the United States and writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
Phone: 2028625910
Email: kbowman@aei.org
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Name: Andrew Rugg
Phone: 2028625917
Email: andrew.rugg@aei.org

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John C.
Fortier

John Fortier is the principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission. A political scientist who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, Boston College, and Harvard University, Mr. Fortier has written numerous scholarly and popular articles. His books include Second-Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed (Brookings Institution Press, 2007); Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils (AEI Press, 2006); and After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, 2004). Mr. Fortier writes a column for Politico and is a frequent radio and television commentator on the presidency, Congress, and elections.
Phone: 2022186779
Email: jfortier@bipartisanpolicy.org
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Phone: 2028625899

Norman J.
Ornstein

Norman Ornstein is a long-time observer of Congress and politics. He writes a weekly column for Roll Call called "Congress Inside Out" and is an election eve analyst for CBS News. He served as codirector of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. He also served as a senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. Mr. Ornstein led a working group of scholars and practitioners that helped shape the law, known as McCain-Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI Press, 2000); The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas E. Mann (Oxford University Press, 2006, named by the Washington Post one of the best books of 2006 and called by the Economist "a classic"); and, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, also with Tom Mann, published in May by Basic Books.
Phone: 202-862-5893
Email: nornstein@aei.org
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Name: Jennifer Marsico
Phone: 202-862-5899
Email: jennifer.marsico@aei.org