My name is jimmy carter, i am running for president. [applause] tonight, tonight i have some good news for you. We will have a democrat in the white house in 1977. Ladies of the convention, probably i present before you the name of jimmy carter as the party, of the democratic the next president of the United States. Election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Analystt is political richard scanlon. Richard inis is washington, with me are professor Howard Penniman and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings and touche and. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. Before we do either of the detailed discussions we have to spend a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of the nominating convention. One has said these are real ideological struggles told by circuses. Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the cosession of American Convention . Convention national is the nominating
announcer: election 1976, a case study. your host is political analyst richard scanlon. richard: with me here in washington today, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard penniman of georgetown university. this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political year. what we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. we will have special programs dealing with parties and the media, campaign technique and polling and the rest. what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. and how 215 million or 220 million americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of american history. what we hope to do is to bring you discussions of these various aspects of the electoral campaign an
your host is political analyst richard scanlon. richard: with me today, stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard penniman. what we want to discuss is the system by which candidates are nominated in our electoral process. every four years, our political parties hold a national convention, attended by thousands of delegates, many of which are elected, some of whom are chosen by party conventions or caucuses in the states, but increasingly the primary is important in determining who the candidates will be. the primary in the sense of the vote of the people to elected delegates to those two conventions, and secondly in it what we call a beauty contest, the expression of opinion of the individual party supported in the primary election as to whom dasha porter in the primary election supporter the primary election as to whom that voter prefers as the candidate for president and vice president. some of the states with primaries have beauty contests, some elec
nomination, and a georgia governor named jimmy carter was winning in early democratic primaries. announcer: election 1976, your host is political analyst richard scanlon. richard: with me today, stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard pennyman. what we want to discuss is the system by which candidates are nominated in our electoral process. every four years, our political parties hold a national convention, attended by thousands of delegates, many of which are elected, some of whom are chosen by party conventions or caucuses in the states, but increasingly the primary is important in determining who the candidates will be. the primary in the sense of the vote of the people to elected delegates to those two conventions, and secondly in it what we call a beauty contest, the expression of opinion of the individual party supported in the primary election as to whom that voter prefers as the candidate for president and vice president. some of the state