Issues Briefing: Mid-Term Elections

Will the Republicans retake the House? Will the Senate fall? Will the Pelosi/Reid doctrine of targeting select districts for the Democrats work? What will drive voter decisions? Get an inside peek at the latest polls and be part of an in-depth discussion on what the latest Congress has and has not accomplished.

This free, half-day program for journalists and others is presented by the National Press Foundation, POLITICO and The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Doors open for a Continental breakfast and networking at 8:45 a.m. Underwritten by Allstate Insurance

Program Agenda

8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Networking

9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Panel: Reading the Numbers
Moderated by Martin Kady, Congressional Bureau Chief, POLITICO

Carroll Doherty, Associate Director, Editorial
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

Bill McInturff, Partner and Co-Founder
Public Opinion Strategies

Celinda Lake, President
Lake Research

10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Panel: Behind the Numbers

Moderated by Linda Streitfeld, Director of Programs, National Press Foundation

Don Wolfensberger, Director, The Congress Project
The Woodrow Wilson Center

Richard E. Cohen, Congressional Reporter
POLITICO

Brian Darling, Director, US Senate Relations
The Heritage Foundation