Assess0. The United States . Guest well, thanks for having me. Thats a wonderful by broad question to open with and challengen weeing. We are living a moment of crisis, lard to deny. Weve been through a spring dominated by Public Health crisis that with us. Were facing now also so el crisis that is as old as our country, the struggle for racial equality and for human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges in our society that had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions will perform to be, how well rise to a challenge like this. Think you cant help but see it as a team of crisis but because it as time of testing its also a time to think about what americas strengths are, walt we are good at and how we can bill on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awful complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between th
Challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years this is a time that makes us wonder how strong institutions will be how we rise to a challenge like this but because at the time of testing but also think of americas strength what we are good i had as a country and to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Thats a complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and quality of the individual on one hand and some strength of community on the other our society in the past halfcentury has emphasized the individual, liberty, freedom, dy that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to the coin that can look like fragmentation and isolation and alienation and loneliness and we have seen all that and era marked by a crises to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of our strength and ways to drive us to the history and politics is not always good at doin
The race. Those are three regions to Pay Attention to on election night. Host jamie is a political reporter joining us f washing. Host joining us from miami is sam gill, the chief Program Officer and president for the Knight Foundation. A new study on who are the nonvoters. What did you learn . Sam thanks for having me. I am looking forward to the chance to talk to your audience. We commissioned the study because, if you actually count the people who did not vote in the last president ial election that would be the top vote getter, not vote is the top vote getter. We wanted to understand, if so many people are not voting who are they . Why are so many people disconnecting from this basic civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse inte
Civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse interests and ideological ideas. It is not just one kind of person. There are things that unify nonvoters. These are folks that have less faith in the system. They have less confidence in the outcome of elections. They are more likely to think the system has been rigged. Matter,ion really does we take it as an article of faith in this country that having an informed electorate and informed citizenry is important. Our Research Found that is true. People who do not vote are less likely to actively seek out news. But intomore likely to news, which is increasingly common in the social news area. They are less likely to have talked about their views growing up. We found that nonvoters are ideologi
What is the state of the democratic race . Will the next 10 days shape this primary thele . And your reaction to results a, including in nevada yesterday. That is our starting point this sunday morning. Colin to washington dc. 202 7488001, your line for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents, 202 7488002. You can also join us on social media at 202 7488003 with a text message, on twitter at cspanwj, facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets begin with the latest results from the nevada caucuses, which wrapped up yesterday. With 50 of the vote now reported officially, senator Bernie Sanders garnering nearly 47 of the vote, as followed by former Vice President joe at att over 19 , Pete Buttigieg 15. 5 percent, and Elizabeth Warren coming in fourth at 10. 3 . The numbers at the bottom of the delegate totals that will go to the county conventions across the state of nevada, and to the state convention, ultimately 36 delegates will be selected for the National Convention when