“Election Year: The Obama Presidency
and the 2012 Campaign”
The 31st Annual Presidential Symposium
This event was held Monday, April 2, 2012.
Webcast:
As President Obama seeks a second term, we examine his presidency and the 2012 election. Is the president to blame for the stagnant economy that has bedeviled his administration? Would any president have been able to engineer a speedier economic recovery? How has the president managed the foreign policy challenges of his time? Has he met the need for symbolic leadership from the president? And what of the Republicans who seek to replace him? Four years after a dramatic election that made American history, what should we expect from the election of 2012?
Panelists:
2012 Panelists Andrew E. Busch, Paul Pierson, John Fund and Anne E. Kornblut
- Andrew E. Busch, Chair, Department of Government, Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
- John Fund, Senior Editor, The American Spectator and author of "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy"
- Anne E. Kornblut, White House correspondent for the Washington Post and author of "Notes From the Cracked Ceiling"
- Paul Pierson, John Gross Endowed Chair, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley and author of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"
This is the 31st Annual Review of the Presidency sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies. Previous Annual Reviews: 2011 | 2010 | 2009
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