The 2006 Governor's Race: An Inside View

Subject:

Social Sciences

Institution Name:

UC Berkeley

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Webcast UC Berkeley Events

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Abstract:

The Primary Election: November 2005 -- June 2006
Campaign managers, media experts and other top officials for all three major candidates discuss the campaign, from the underlying structure of the electorate to the day-to-day strategy to the outcome.

Moderators: Scott Shafer, KQED Public Broadcasting; Randy Shandobil, KTVU News
Schwarzenegger — Laying the Groundwork
Opening Remarks: Bruce Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies
Panelists: Matthew Dowd; Susan Kennedy; Reed Galen; Adam Mendelsohn; Steve Schmidt

The Westly Candidacy
Panelists: Jude Barry; David Doak; Garry South

The Angelides Candidacy
Panelists: Cathy Calfo; Paul Maslin; Katie Merrill; Bob Mulholland

Roundtable and Q&A with All Three Campaigns

Saturday, January 20, 2007
California: Blue, Red or Purple?
Scholars, journalists, and others analyze the nature of the California electorate — the battlefield on which the governor's campaign was fought. Democrats control the Legislature and carry the state easily in presidential elections, yet Republicans have held the governorship for 19 of the last 24 years. Are we as blue as our reputation, secretly red, or some purple shade in between?

Panelists: Bruce Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies; Morris Fiorina (Professor of Political Science, Stanford University); Thad Kousser (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California at San Diego); Ted Lascher (Professor of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento)

The Polls: What Were Voters Thinking?
The state's leading pollsters describe the status of public opinion before, during and after the campaign.
Moderator: Susan Rasky, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
Panelists: Mark Baldassare, Director of Research, Public Policy Institute of California; Mark DiCamillo, Director, Field Poll; Susan Pinkus, Director, Los Angeles Times Poll; Phil Trounstine, Director, Survey and Policy Research Institute, San Jose State University

The General Election: June 2006 — November 2006
Campaign managers, media experts and other top officials for both major candidates discuss the campaign, from the underlying structure of the electorate to the day-to-day strategy to the outcome.

Moderators: Mark Barabak, Los Angeles Times; Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle

The Angelides Candidacy
Panelists: Cathy Calfo; Bill Carrick; Paul Maslin; Katie Merrill

The Schwarzenegger Candidacy
Panelists: Matthew Dowd; Susan Kennedy; Reed Galen; Adam Mendelsohn; Steve Schmidt

Roundtable and Q&A with Both Campaigns

Languages:

English

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Primary Source

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Video

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5

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2007 Regents of the University of California