AEI Election Watch 2008 (Session 7)
Thursday, July 31, 2008 | 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event

Online registration for this event is closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted.

As the election campaign accelerates and both parties gear up for their political conventions, AEI’s Election Watch team will provide a convention preview–what themes might serve to unite each party, how the media will respond to the spectacle, and what we know about the postconvention bounce. Panelists will also discuss the campaign strategies of both candidates. Can Barack Obama remake the electoral map? Can John McCain frame the election in terms of experience and duty? And how might various vice presidential picks–including the possibility of a cross-party nomination–shake up the race? Also on the agenda: the issues; the national mood; congressional, gubernatorial, and statehouse contests; and much more.

The charge for this session is $60.

Accredited media should register by e-mailing vrodman@aei.org.

Agenda
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
8:30
Panelists:
Michael Barone, AEI
Karlyn Bowman, AEI
John C. Fortier, AEI
Norman J. Ornstein, AEI
10:00
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

  • Assistant Info

    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

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Andrew Rugg
    Phone: 2028625917
    Email: andrew.rugg@aei.org
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John C.
Fortier
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Norman J.
Ornstein
  • Norman Ornstein is a long-time observer of Congress and politics. He writes a weekly column for Roll Call and is an election 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 serves 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 coauthored The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Oxford University Press, 2006); and, most recently, Vital Statistics on Congress 2008 (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), also coauthored.
  • Phone: 202-862-5893
    Email: nornstein@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Jennifer Marsico
    Phone: 202-862-5899
    Email: jennifer.marsico@aei.org
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