Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - America's House Divided
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Channel: World Economic Forum · 2007 · News & Politics
http://www.weforum.org/ The November presidential election in the United States was one of the most bitter and partisan in recent decades. There seems to be a growing rift between red and blue America, and how American values are understood by Americans and the world. 1) What is driving America's political divide? 2) How should non-Americans understand the difference between a Republican and Democratic America? 3) Where are the future fault-lines of American cultural identity? Orrin G. Hatch, Senator from Utah (Republican); Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, USA John McCain, Senator from Arizona (Republican), USA Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, USA; Young Global Leader John J. Sweeney, President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, USA Moderated by David R. Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
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