Bipartisan Policy Center Announces Line Up for its Second Annual Political Summit

Event to be webcast live from New Orleans

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today announced the line up for its Second Annual Political Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday, November 9, 2010.  The summit, Beyond the Ballot: Making Washington Work, will consist of three panel discussions with Republican and Democratic political strategists and journalists, the release of a bipartisan midterm poll by Democracy Corps and Resurgent Republic, and the launch of the BPC's new Democracy Project.  Together with the BPC, James Carville and Mary Matalin will host the event at Tulane University.  

The panel discussions will be webcast live from New Orleans and can be accessed from the BPC's website at www.bipartisanpolicy.org/nola2010 beginning Tuesday, November 9 at 10:00 a.m. CT. The event will also be blogged live from the BPC website and can be followed on Twitter at @BPC_Bipartisan and #NOLA2010.

The first panel, Taking Stock: What the Election Means for Bipartisanship, will be moderated by John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times. The panel will feature pollsters Whit Ayres and Stan Greenberg; strategists Matthew Dowd, Todd Harris, and Steve McMahon; and Kate Zernike of The New York Times.  

The second panel, Blurring the Line: Is it Journalism or Entertainment?, will be moderated by David Corn of Mother Jones and PoliticsDaily.com.  The panel will feature strategists Dan Bartlett, Joe Lockhart, Mark McKinnon and Kiki McLean; and journalists Betsy Fischer, Executive Producer of NBC's Meet the Press, and Jonathan Martin of Politico.

The final panel, The Politics of Crisis, will be moderated by Kathleen Koch, author of the recently released book, Rising from Katrina.  The panel will feature the Honorable John Young, President of Jefferson Parish; and strategists Paul Begala, Dan Bartlett, Lanny Davis and Hilary Rosen.

Former U.S. Secretaries Dan Glickman and Dirk Kempthorne, and AOL co-founder Steve Case, will also appear at the Summit to announce the BPC's newest initiative, The Democracy Project.  The Democracy Project will highlight workable solutions to the challenges facing our nation and look at issues including redistricting reform, and how Congress and campaigns function.  

Democracy Corps and Resurgent Republic have teamed up to produce a bipartisan post-election poll for the BPC summit. Stan Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, and Whit Ayres, Founder and President of Ayres McHenry & Associates, will present the findings at the event. In addition, James Carville and Ed Gillespie will offer their collective analysis on how the political environment might shift based upon the recent mid-term elections. The poll will explore the motivations of voters, especially Independents, in this past Tuesday's election, the immense anger over the direction of the country and the state of the economy, the policies and priorities for the nation going forward in light of the new Congress, the values voters seek in their leaders, who voters trust to handle the big issues facing the country, the direction they want the Republican and Democratic parties to go, how President Obama and the Republicans should try to work together, and give a preview of the 2012 national electorate.

To RSVP and view a full Summit agenda, visit www.bipartisanpolicy.org/nola2010.  The event is free and open to the public and media, but registration is encouraged.  All Summit events will take place in the Kendall Cram Room in Lavin Bernick Center on Tulane University's campus.  

About the Bipartisan Policy Center:

In 2007, former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell formed the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to develop and promote solutions that can attract the public support and political momentum to achieve real progress. Currently, the BPC focuses on issues including health care, energy, national and homeland security, transportation, science and economic policy. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/.

SOURCE Bipartisan Policy Center