Todays talk by Matthew P Fink is something i have been looking forward to because i like matt. I dont know anything about the subject. I will be learning with you today also. Matt comes to us he is retired now. He spent the bulk of his career with the mutual fund association. He wrote what you described to me as a Landmark Book on mutual funds. He followed it up with this book last year. Carter glass and financial regulation. He has a few images to supplement his discourse and then he will take some questions. Come on up. I have a funny thing happening getting here, i live in ceviches maryland, and then i called for lift, and they came within a minute. I had purely barely put on my tie. I i got my lift as he was pulling away, i realized that i had not put a belt on my trousers. So i had a vision of being on here without having a belt and my trousers falling elm on air. So carter glass, i will talk for 2025 minutes and then take questions. So carter glass, was a major figure in American
Pollsters joining us today. House,lachlan and neil neil was the pollster for the previous republican nominee, mitt romney, 2012. You can follow along the and ask usn olitico. S, p we are excited to have this conversation. Thanks. Good to be here. I want to start with the question i get most when people in a speakingr gig or in general conversation, to what extent polling has underestimated President Trump. Both of you believe there is underestimation going on. John, what drives that . I think it is significant. Two things. Reporting, you are ahead of the curve in terms of the changes technology has made. It is harder to get voters period. You focused on the education levels, workingclass levels. Polls structured to keep up with technology and where people are and being able to get a hold of them, that is one challenge. Then there is the challenge of donald trump. He is a unique figure in history. Beat thehe odds he odds. It was a close race. The strategy was built on new voters. 9 mill
Steven thank you, anna and jake i am steve shepard, Senior Campaigns editor of politico, joined by Elena Schneider we have, as they said, two republican pollsters joining us today. John mclaughlin, part of the Trump Campaign polling team, and neil newhouse, republican strategies. Neil was the pollster for the previous republican president ial nominee, mitt romney in 2012. Elena but before we get started, a reminder that you can follow along with this conversation following the hashtag rncwithpolitico. And also ask us questions politico. So thank you john and neil for being with us this morning. Mr. Newhouse thanks, elena. Mr. Mclaughlin pleasure to be here. Steve for both of you, i want to start with the question i get most of all when people ask me, whether it is in a speaking gig or in general conversation, about the polls, and that is to what extent the polls have underestimated President Trump over the past five years. Most of the folks who have looked at the idea of a trump hidden
Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
We will begin with the current front runner in iowa and New Hampshire, Pete Buttigieg. He is rising in the polls and leading in those states. Give us a phone call at 202 7488000, that is our line for democrats. Foran 202 7488001 republicans. If you are an independent 202 7488002. You can send us a text message at 202 7488003, include your name and where you are texting us from. You can also tweet us or communicate on facebook. We want to begin with this story inside the Washington Post. Mike pence visiting with troops in iraq ahead of the thanksgiving holiday i welcome the opportunity to reiterate the strong bonds forged by the fires of war between the people of the u. S. And the Kurdish People across the region. From Vice President mike pence who was in the region and is now in germany. News on Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, she has been hospitalized. Supreme court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg hospitalized after experiencing chills and a admitted onas friday night into Johns Hopkins hosp