I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe
In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
The legal and tax historian discusses his book. Let me introduce todays speaker, dr. Tera hunter, professor of American History and professor of African American studies at princeton. She is a specialist in 19th and 20th century history. She specializes in gender, race, labor, and the history of the United States south. A little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning, her most recent book is bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple awards. And a variety of other prizes. The list goes on and on. Congress as a policy. Wherever the union army appeared in confederate territory, enslaved people fled. They were housed in what were called contraband camps. These were makeshift campsites that were situated next to union army camps. They provided very important source of labor in the camps. They provided intel, information, that proved cr
It seems like. If you listen to House Speaker nancy pelosi, theyre going to start to craft that legislation next week, hope to have it passed by end of the month, definitely passed by middle of march. Jobless benefits start to run out, thats the threat the white house referenced so much. Wolf, heres the catch. No republicans are on board. Theyre opposed to this. Despite calls for bipartisanship and invitations for republicans to the white house, President Biden now appears ready to move on without them. Theyre just not willing to go as far as i think we have to go. Reporter President Biden making clear in the strongest terms yet, he wont wait for republicans to pass his pandemic relief bill. What republicans proposed is to do nothing or not enough. Reporter days after sitting down with Senate Republicans in the oval office, biden said he wont delay the bill in hopes of getting some of them on board. If i have to choose between getting help now to americans who are hurting so badly, get
Lot of votes to count there. Pueblo has 20 electoral votes up for grabs. The president has 52 of the vote right now compared to joe bidens 47 . And the race remains close in North Carolina, as well. President trump is in the lead here, with 50 bank account of the vote. Compared to joe bidens nearly 49 . North carolina, by the way, has 15 electoral votes and President Trump also slightly ahead at this point in georgia, with 96 of the vote counted. He leads with 50 of the vote compared to joe bidens 49 . Georgia has 16 electoral votes to offer now, earlier this afternoon both michigan and wisconsin were called for joe biden. Lets look now at the electoral vote total. Joe biden now has 264 of the 270 that he needs. Nevadas six could give him the white house, though. We have live coverage of the race for the white house. Our political reporter greg greg lee. Here we are a day after the election and the election remains unclear. Yes. With michigan and wisconsin going to biden his path to th