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Elections 2008: A Fresh Start

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Jerry Hagstrom Date: Monday, 29 October 2007 Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

The 2008 U.S. presidential elections are the first since 1952 to feature neither an incumbent nor a vice president. Jerry Hagstrom, contributing editor to National Journal, who has covered numerous aspects of American elections throughout the years, has a keen insight into the American election process. Please join him as he brings his expertise to the USINFO chatroom to discuss some of the unique aspects of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Guest Biography: Jerry Hagstrom is a prize-winning American journalist, book author and commentator. He writes regularly for the National Journal group of publications. In the 1980s, he pioneered the coverage of the polling and media consulting industries for National Journal, and he has lectured on modern U.S. political campaigns in 25 countries for the State Department. Hagstrom is the co-author with Neal R. Peirce of The Book of America: Inside the Fifty States Today, a book on the politics and character of each of the 50 states, and the author of Beyond Reagan: The New Landscape of American Politics.