Tell us where they are today. The republicans, yeah. The republicans had 179 seats at the beginning of the obama administration. They are up to, if you look at current leads at 251, some of those leads may evaporate as california in particular takes a long time to vote to count its votes. They theyve taken as long as five weeks. A week ago sunday, brazil tabulates the votes in five hours. In california, which believes itself to be a more advanced state takes five weeks. In any case, it appears that republicans have won more than the 234. They won it in 2012, more than the 242, they won in 2010. And almost certainly more than the 246, they won in 1946. You have to go back to the 1928 cycle to find a time when republicans did better in house elections. Norm was covering that for cbs radio. And thats thats there. Its, you know, part of this is baked into the cake by demographics. You know, in 2016, 2012, mitt romney who many of you will remember carried 226 house districts, carried a majo
The reserve seats can be used, at least for this session. Rather than your having to be stuck in the back. So as i started to say, one of the goals of this conference is to engage the Younger Generation in deciding what we should or should not do. What we should desist from doindoing in the area of support for democracy abroaded in the decades ahead. So its appropriate the next generation have a major voice in formulating the new consensus, hopefully well get to a new consensus you have bios, ive introduced only two speakers by name. In your conference packages you have bio information on all of them. Our goal today is to have a really intense focused discussion where people have a chance to engage the panelists have a chance to engage with each other, they have dissending and differing views and leaving plenty of dim for discussions with you. Thomas melia hopes to be here. Hes snuck traffic. Dissent. Here are the three questions ive asked our speakers and you to think about and focus
Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of
So that is told in this book. Thats one message. Its sort of a yes, we can. The message of the book is about us, people like margaret and me. We know so much. But we believe in the book that we have let our people down. The leadership which we should be showing to our political leaders, to our committees, are anyways been wanting. And they step up. African a is a different africa. The africa that i grew up in was very hopeful. Africa is better again. Driven by two forces. One the Applicant Initiative itself. Africa transformed from a used ee which is more center. And also zerotolerance. You cant take power by force. Not allowed. Because of that we have more Economic Growth. Africa is more hopeful again. So it is time for people like margaret and me, and some of the africans who are here, lets step up and show leadership. In the last point is partner from outside africa. This is what market was saying, like the situation in liberia, sierra leone and so on. The people who can lead there,
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