- 1999 Bulen Symposium
on American Politics
- Front-Loading: Is a Blizzard
of Primaries Burying the Political
Parties?
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- Friday, December 3,
1999
- University Place Conference
Center
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- 8:30 Registration
check-in
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- 9:00 Welcome
- Gerald Bepko, Chancellor,
IUPUI
- Mitch Daniels, Senior Vice President,
Eli Lilly & Company
- Ken Bode, Dean, Medill School of
Journalism, Northwestern University
- 9:15 - 10:30
- "The Long(er), Winding Road:
Campaigns for the White House in the Age of Front-Loading"
- William G. Mayer, Professor,
Northeastern University (editor of In Pursuit of the White
House: How We Choose Our Presidential
Nomineees)
- Mark Lubbers, campaign manager for
Senator Richard Lugar's 1996 campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination
- Jim Barnes, national political
reporter and analyst, National Journal
- Barbara Norrander, Professor,
University of Arizona (contributing author, In Pursuit of
the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential
Nominees)
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- 10:30 - 10:45
Break
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- 10:45 - 12:00
- "Earliest, Earlier, and Later:
State Strategies, Front-Loading, and Its
Effects"
- Terry Branstad, former Governor of
Iowa
- Bob Mulholland, California Democratic
Party Chairman
- Mike McDaniel, Indiana Republican
Party Chairman
- Robin Winston, Indiana Democratic
Party chairman
- Jack Colwell, political reporter,
The South Bend Tribune
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- Noon - 1:30 Special Luncheon
Program: "Frontloading and the Parties"
- Jim Nicholson, Chairman, Republican
National Committee
- Joe Andrew, Chairman, Democratic
National Committee
- Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor, Indiana
Uniersity-Indianapolis
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- 1:45 - 2:45 "Covering and
Explaining the Political Process in the Age of
Front-Loading"
- Walter Shapiro, political columnist,
USA Today
- Jonathan Karl, Washington
correspondent, CNN
- John M. Mutz, Visiting Fellow, Medill
School of Journalism, Northwestern University
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- 2:45 - 3:00 Break
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- 3:00 - 4:00 "Frontloading, the
Parties, and the Public"
- Curtis Gans, Director, Committee for
the Study of the American Electorate
- Andrew Busch, Professor, Uniersity of
Denver (contributing author, In Pursuit of the White House:
How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees
- Brian Vargus, Director, Indiana
University Public Opinion Laboratory
- Marjorie Hershey, Professor, Indiana
University-Bloomington
- Peter Rusthoven
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- 4:00 - 4:30 Concluding discussion,
with audience participation
- Ken Bode, moderator
- Walter Shapiro
- Curtis Gans
- William Mayer
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- 4:30 Adjourn
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