Courting the Religious Vote
2:45–4 p.m.
Strategists for both Democratic and Republican parties share how each side believes they can win the “values voters.”

PANELISTS
• Tamara Scott, 72 Hour Director and Social Conservative Iowa Co-Chair for Bush/Cheney in 2004
• Burns Strider, Hillary Clinton for President.

AUDIO
• Introduction
• Tamara Scott
• Burns Strider
• Q & A

The Faith Factor: Understanding the Religious Vote
4:15–5:30 p.m.
John Green, the nation’s top pollster of religion and presidential politics, tells us what trends to watch over the next 12 months as the nation chooses a president in 2008. Green is the author of: The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections. John C. Green is a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. He is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron and director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, a bipartisan research and teaching institute. He also co-authored The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy; Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches form the Front and The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics. He is the most quoted scholar on the topic of religion and politics.

AUDIO
• Introduction
• John Green
• Q & A
• See the charts from this session (.pdf)

Opening speaker: Michael Quintanilla
Pulitzer Prize-winner, senior features editor, San Antonio Express-News
7:45–9 p.m.

According to Quintanilla’s American Press Institute bio, “Before joining the Express-News, he wrote for the Southern California Living and Calendar sections, both features and lifestyle sections of the Los Angeles Times. He has been named feature writer of the year by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. His work was included in the staff package that won the Los Angeles Times the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 riots and again in 1994 for reporting on the Northridge Earthquake. His work has been extensively published in college textbooks and a human interest series he wrote became the basis for an NBC movie. When the terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, Quintanilla was in New York on another assignment and soon was covering the World Trade Center tragedy. He was one of the first reporters to work his way into the disaster scene and atop the rubble where he spent the next several days and nights. Quintanilla’s World Trade Center work won him the Times' breaking news award for 2001. At the Express-News he is a pop culture writer with an emphasis on fashion and has helped in the creation of “niche” publications including ‘SPICE,’ a women’s lifestyle magazine and ‘trends’ a high-fashion broadsheet glossy. He also has contributed greatly to new story forms in features as well as supplemental website forms for his stories. Additionally he is a contributing editor to “Latina” magazine and a regular on the NBC-affiliate’s morning lifestyle talk show where he is known as the show’s 'fashion guru.'”

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