A Conversation on the Presidential Election and the Lessons Learned / Mark Penn, Allan Lichtman, Liz Mair and Thane Rosenbaum - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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A Conversation on the Presidential Election and the Lessons Learned

Mark Penn, Allan Lichtman, Liz Mair and Thane Rosenbaum
A Conversation on the Presidential Election and the Lessons Learned

Join presidential polling expert Mark Penn, award-winning author and political historian Allan Lichtman, and political writer Liz Mair, for an essential rundown of the 2024 election, moderated by FOLCS' Creative Director Thane Rosenbaum.

The 2024 election cycle has been one of the most tumultuous in modern history. Many rules and norms seem to have been rewritten in real time. Why do states have such varying election laws? Why is the American electorate so difficult to read right now? Is our polling accurate and how have these systems evolved? How have the politics of battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia shifted in recent years? Hear Penn, Lichtman, Mair, and Rosenbaum tackle these questions and more as we take stock of what the 2024 election tells us about the future of American democracy. 

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Mark Penn

Mark Penn

Mark Penn is the Chairman and CEO of Stagwell Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, with over 12,000 employees …

Mark Penn

Mark Penn

Mark Penn is the Chairman and CEO of Stagwell Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, with over 12,000 employees and $2 billion of annual revenue. His career spans 40 years in market research, advertising, public relations, polling, and consulting. A globally recognized strategist, Penn has advised top world leaders, led companies, and written two bestselling books.

Prior to founding Stagwell, Penn served as Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. He sat on the company’s 12-member Senior Leadership Team, managing a $2 billion advertising budget and later overall strategy for the world’s largest company.

Penn was the co-founder and CEO of Penn Schoen Berland — a high-tech market research powerhouse that he built and sold to WPP. At WPP, he became CEO of Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s largest public relations companies.

For six years, Penn served as White House Pollster to President Bill Clinton and was chief strategist of his 1996 re-election campaign and developed the concept behind “Soccer Moms.” He is credited with developing several unique ad and polling methods and was first to implement overnight polling.

Allan Lichtman

Allan Lichtman

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University. He has provided expert testimony …

Allan Lichtman

Allan Lichtman

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University. He has provided expert testimony in some 110 civil rights cases. He has written 13 books, many hundreds of scholarly and popular articles, and provided worldwide media commentary. His books have won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish History (FDR and the Jews, with Richard Breitman) and were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction and the Los Angeles Book Prize in History. His recent books include The Embattled Vote In America, Repeal the Second Amendment, and 21 Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump. His Keys to the White House prediction system, has successfully forecasted the results of presidential elections since 1984, including Donald Trump’s win in 2016. Dr. Lichtman received the Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and ranked #85 among the world’s 100 most influential geopolitical experts per rise.global.

Liz Mair

Liz Mair

Liz Mair is the owner, founder and President of Mair Strategies LLC and the US’ leading right-of-center online communications operative…

Liz Mair

Liz Mair

Liz Mair is the owner, founder and President of Mair Strategies LLC and the US’ leading right-of-center online communications operative. She principally writes about politics, with additional commentary on sports, travel and other assorted topics. 

A libertarian Republican and Arsenal FC fan, Liz served as Online Communications Director at the Republican National Committee during 2008, where she led an aggressive and groundbreaking online media outreach effort aimed at electing John McCain, Sarah Palin and Republicans across the US. In this capacity, she also served as a spokesperson, undertaking on-camera interviews and debates on behalf of the RNC and the campaign against representatives of the Obama campaign and the DNC. 

Thane Rosenbaum

Thane Rosenbaum

Thane is a novelist, essayist, and Distinguished Professor at Touro University where he directs the Forum on Life…

Thane Rosenbaum

Thane Rosenbaum

Creative Director & Founder, FOLCS

Thane is a novelist, essayist, and Distinguished Professor at Touro University where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society (FOLCS). He is the author of the widely praised novels, How Sweet It Is! , The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and the novel-in-stories, Elijah Visible. His articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Slate, Salon, Huffington Post, and Daily Beast, among other national publications. He moderates an annual series of discussions on politics and culture at The 92nd Street Y called The Talk Show.

He serves as the national legal analyst for CBS News Radio. He is the author of Payback: The Case for Revenge and The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s Right. He is the editor of the anthology, Law Lit, from Atticus Finch to “The Practice” : A Collection of Great Writings about the Law. His latest book is entitled Saving Free Speech…from Itself.

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