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Election Results

2008 Election Results A Distinguished Roundtable

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  • ABOUT Jonathan Alter

    Jonathan Alter is an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author. Since 1991, Alter has written a widely-acclaimed Newsweek column that examines politics, media and social and global issues. For more than a decade, he has worked as a contributing correspondent to NBC News. His 2006 book, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, was a national bestseller. As an editor, he helps shape the magazine's overall news coverage.

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  • ABOUT Charles Madigan

    Charles M. Madigan spent forty years in journalism before joining Roosevelt University in Chicago as Presidential Writer- in-Residence. He has worked as senior correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the editor of the Tribune's "Perspective" section. He is the editor of Global Chicago and co-author of Dangerous Company: Management Consultants and the Businesses They Save and Ruin. Profile

  • ABOUT Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

    Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is founder and publisher of Daily Kos, the largest progressive community blog in the United States. Moulitsas is also co-author of the critically acclaimed book Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era, a contributing columnist to Newsweek and a weekly columnist at the newspaper The Hill. Profile

  • ABOUT Lynn Sweet

    Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She writes a column and a blog for the paper. She has covered politics and government from Chicago's street brawls to the White House. A Chicago native, she holds a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2007 Sweet was inducted into Medill's Hall of Achievement and the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.

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  • ABOUT Laura Washington

    Laura Washington is the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University, contributing columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and a senior editor for In These Times magazine. The former editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter, she served as deputy press secretary to Harold Washington. Washington is an award-winning journalist who has covered local and national politics for more than two decades. Her work has been widely featured in the national media, including Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times.

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Prominent American journalists from various media assessed the results of the 2008 presidential election and looked ahead to the challenges facing then President-elect Barack Obama's nascent administration. Panelists included Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter; Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet; founder/publisher of the progressive blog Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas; and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington. Former Chicago Tribune editor Charles Madigan, now presidential writer in residence at Roosevelt University, moderated.

Generously sponsored by the McCormick Foundation.

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Barak Obama, George Bush, Leadership, America, Politics, Policy, Race

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