WNYC - Vote 2008

Demographics (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 07 November 2008)

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:10 GMT

John B. Judis, a senior editor of New Republic, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the author of The Emerging Democratic Majority and The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Scribner, 2004) looks at what this election means for party dominance.

NYC Celebrates First Black President-Elect

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:32 GMT

All night long, New York City has been celebrating the election of Barack Obama, the first African-American to win the White House. The partying erupted last evening along 125th Street in Harlem with....

Chris Shays Knocked Out of Office After 21 Years

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:40 GMT

The tidal wave of support for Barack Obama swept Connecticut Republican Congressman Chris Shays out of office after 21 years. He was the last Republican from New England left in Congress and he was ....

Dems Take Control of NY State Senate

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:50 GMT

New York’s last bastion of Republican control -- the State Senate -- has become a Democratic power base, along with the Assembly and Governorship. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more. Two long-serving R....

Legislative Changes (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 05 November 2008)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:19 GMT

Irene Liu, political writer and blogger for the Albany Times Union, and Liz Benjamin, New York Daily News columnist and blogger, look at what the voters changed in the state legislature.

Changes on the Hill (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 05 November 2008)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:47 GMT

David Hawkings, managing editor of CQ Weekly, looks at what's new for the U.S. Congress.

The Morning After (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 05 November 2008)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:40 GMT

Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University and the author of The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (PublicAffairs, 2008) and Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and the author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House, 2008) take the long view on yesterday’s voting results.

Event
Walter Isaacson will interview Jon Meacham about his book at the 92nd St. Y on Sunday, November 23rd at 7:30. Ticket information here.

Post-Election Coverage (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 05 November 2008)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:17 GMT

WNYC’s political director Andrea Bernstein goes through the election returns with Jonathan Capehart, editorial writer for the Washington Post and then Mark Blumenthal, editor and publisher of Pollster.com.

Nation Reacts as Obama Projected Winner

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:41 GMT

Cheers in Times Square, Harlem and Chicago at 11PM on November 4, as all the networks project Barack Obama the President-elect of the United States of America. ....

NYC Voters Take Long Lines in Stride

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:11 GMT

The lines are long but many people are just happy be there. WNYC's Marianne McCune is in Hamilton Heights in Upper Manhattan where people are calling their friends and taking photos while they wait ....

Voter Resources

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:35 GMT

Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in New York, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. in New Jersey New Yorkers can verify that they are registered and find their polling place: NY Voter Look Up New Jersey residen....

In Penn., Latinos at Ease with Obama

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:37 GMT

There’s been much talk of racism this election season - and not only white racism. The Latino vote may be a deciding factor in some states and throughout this election many Hispanics have spoken o....

Is NJ Prepared for Election Day?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:31 GMT

In New Jersey, an early Presidential primary and the heated battle between Senators Obama and Clinton helped draw over a half-million new voters to the rolls. That voter excitement has continued sin....

Election Lawyers on Alert (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 03 November 2008)

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:20 GMT

Richard Hasen, law professor at Loyola Law School who writes the Election Law Blog, talks about legal issues that may crop up on Election Day.

NYS Senate: Evaluating a Power Shift

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:40 GMT

With the Election just 5 days, there's an intense battle underway and it's not just over the White House. Control of the New York State Senate also hangs in the balance. Republicans have controlled....

Political Pumpkins Popping Up

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:28 GMT

Reporter: When you want to display your enthusiastic support for a candidate, you can pin a button to your coat; slap a bumper sticker on your car; tape a sign to your window. Or you can do what th....

Down the Stretch (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 29 October 2008)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:23 GMT

Robert Shrum, columnist for The Week magazine, a senior adviser to the Gore 2000 presidential campaign, chief strategist for the 2004 Kerry- Edwards campaign and the author of No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (Simon and Schuster), gives analysis of the final week of the presidential campaign.

30 Issues: Race, Beyond Affirmative Action (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 27 October 2008)

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:01 GMT

Charles Blow, New York Times's visual Op-Ed columnist, and Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center and author of America Against the World : How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), review American attitudes toward race, as evidence by polling.

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Dr. Cornel West, the Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, author of Race Matters, and most recently, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom, (Hay House, 2008) and Maria Hinojosa, managing editor and host of NPR's Latino USA and senior correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine NOW, and Abigail Thernstrom, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and co-author with her husband of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (Simon & Schuster, October 2003), discuss the state of race relations in the U.S.

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Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai asks why in "national conversations about race" the viewpoints of Asian Americans often are left out.

What specific topics should a national conversation about race include? Comment below!

Monday Morning Politics (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 27 October 2008)

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:00 GMT

Gail Collins and David Brooks, both op-ed columnists for the New York Times , continue their election conversation begun on the paper's Campaign Stops blog.

30 Issues: Funding for the Arts (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 24 October 2008)

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:13 GMT

John McCain said he doesn't know much about the arts but is willing to be educated. Design a curriculum. How would you give McCain a crash course on arts and culture? What does he need to know? Post

Two local arts administrators, Harlem Stage’s executive director Patricia Cruz and Keith Stubblefield, chief financial officer of The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), talk about the funding picture for New York’s arts institutions.

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Robert Lynch, C.E.O. of Americans for the Arts Action Fund, examines both of the presidential candidates' positions on arts and culture policy.

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Coco Fusco, performance artist, author, video artist and chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Parsons the New School for Design, gives an artist’s perspective on the issue.

Event
Patricia Cruz will take part "The Cultural Warriors", a panel discussion, at Dance Theater Workshop on Nov. 6 at 6:30.

Twelve (More) Days of Campaigning (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 24 October 2008)

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:37 GMT

Ron Brownstein, political director for Atlantic Media and the author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America (Penguin, 2007), offers analysis of the waning days of the presidential race.

Term Limits Testimony Continues in Council

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:23 GMT

A second day of heated testimony and debate continues at City Hall over Mayor Bloomberg's proposed legislation to change the city's term limits law. Elected officials from across the city have been a....

New Yorkers Assess Final Debate

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:15 GMT

New Yorkers from across region are playing the role of pundit, assessing the performance of both presidential candidates in last night's third and final debate. A group of veterans watched the debat....

Clinton Stumps for Obama in Pennsylvania

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:22 GMT

New York Senator Hillary Clinton is stumping for the Obama-Biden ticket in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania for the first time Sunday. Monday Clinton is scheduled to make stops tomorrow in ....

Penn. Voter Drive on Over Drive

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:37 GMT

Today is the last day for voter registration in Pennsylvania. Over the weekend, hundreds of New Yorkers headed out to the battleground state. WNYC's Arun Venugopal tagged along to North Philadelphi....