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(Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)The Day After
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, law professor Sheryll Cashin, WNYC’s political director Andrea Bernstein, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post, pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal and others help put the election results in context. Also, how did the voters change the U.S. Congress and the New York State legislature? And listener calls.
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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
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.
Changes on the Hill
David Hawkings, managing editor of CQ Weekly, looks at what's new for the U.S. Congress.
Voting Concerns
Alexander Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, talks about technical problems voters might have encountered.
Legislative Changes
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.
Open Phones: Progressive Patriotism
Listeners commandeer the airwaves to close out today's historic Brian Lehrer Show. Is there a new progressive patriotism afoot? Are Democrats taking back the flag? And: we want to hear your reaction to President-elect Obama. Comment below!
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