The following is a talk by Raymond Seidelman on the results of the US elections given for the Political Science Department of York University, in Toronto, Canada.
Audio recorded and produced by Tom Keefer. The event was sponsored by: Department of Political Science, Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought and the CRC in Comparative Political Economy.
The following is a talk by on questions of how and why the democrats lost the election to George W. Bush and what the implications are of the grip of right wing hegemony on the US white working class. Examined in the discussion are voting patterns across "red" and "blue" states, the rise of the GOP as a disciplined mass party of a fundamentally new type, the role of the evangelical Christians and the content of their attacks on so called "liberalism", as well as the rays of hope emerging from the various coalitions that have formed to fight Bush's agenda.
Guest speaker Raymond Seidelman is a professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where since l982, he has taught courses in electoral politics, social movements, the mass media, and urban politics.
Professor Seidelman received his PhD from Cornell University in l979, won a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea in 1993, and taught for Johns Hopkins University in Nanjing, China, in l987.
Dr. Seildelman is introduced by Dr. George Cominel, Chair of the York Political Science Department, and Dr. Judy Hellman, professor in Political Science and Social and Political Thought at York University.
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