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9th Annual American Democracy Conference
The 2006 Midterm Elections and the 2008 Presidential Election
About | Agenda | Registration | Sponsors
Elections are the seminal event in the life of our democracy. Not only do they set the direction of our republic, campaigns and elections help to shed light on America's state of political health. It is altogether fitting then, that an examination of our democracy and its current state take place in conjunction with those elections. Each year, shortly after the November elections, the University of Virginia Center for Politics, in partnership with National Journal's The Hotline, presents the annual American Democracy Conference. Growing from the first National Post Election Conference in 1998, these gatherings now not only examine the last election cycle, but also attempt to discuss the state of American democracy and its prospects for the future.
In 2006 the Center for Politics brought the 9th Annual American Democracy Conference to the nation's capital. The conference, co-hosted with National Journal's The Hotline, brought leading journalists, Beltway insiders, and academics together to examine: "The 2006 Midterm Elections and the 2008 Presidential Election." The 2006 American Democracy Conference featured a keynote address by well-known political consultant James Carville, in addition to top Republican and Democratic panelists who represented many of the oft-mentioned contenders for each party's presidential nomination in 2008.
The free event was held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Thursday, November 30, 2006.
Agenda
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006
9:00am - 1:15pm
- 8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
- 9:00am - 9:45am Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address - Keynote by James Carville
- 9:45am - 10:45am Panel I: ReDEMption – Analyzing the 2006 Midterms
Moderator:
Larry J. Sabato - Center for Politics
Panelists:
Fred Barnes - Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard
Donna Brazile - Brazile and Associations LLC
John Dickerson - Chief Political Correspondent, Slate
John Lapp - Executive Director, DCCC
Michael E. Toner - Chairman, Federal Election Commission
- 10:45am - 11:00am Break
- 11:00am - 12:00pm Panel II: The 2008 Republican Presidential Contenders
Moderator:
Chuck Todd - The Hotline
Panelists:
David Kensinger - Kensinger & Associates, representing Sen.
Sam Brownback
Mark McKinnon - Maverick Media, representing Sen. John
McCain
Jan van Lohuizen - Voter Consumer Research, representing
Governor Mitt Romney
Alex Vogel - Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, representing Sen.
Bill Frist
Rich Galen - Manning Selvage & Lee, former Communications
Director of the political office to House Speaker
Newt Gingrich
- 12:00pm - 12:15pm Break
- 12:15pm - 1:15pm Panel III: The 2008 Democratic Presidential Contenders
Moderator:
John Mercurio - The Hotline
Panelists:
Anita Dunn - Squier Knapp Dunn, representing Sen. Evan
Bayh
Steve Murphy - Murphy Putnam Media, representing Gov. Bill
Richardson
Jennifer Palmieri - Center for American Progress,
representing Sen. John Edwards
Doug Sosnik - political strategist, representing Sen. Chris
Dodd
Jessica Vanden Berg - political strategist, representing
Wesley Clark
Jim Jordan - Thunder Road Group
- 1:15pm Conference Closing Remarks
Registration
The 2006 American Democracy Conference was free and open to the public with advance registration
Sponsors
- Wrinkle in Time Foundation
Previous American Democracy Conferences
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