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Dole Institute of Politics - Post Election Conference Part 7 of 7 The purpose of the conference is to discuss the key factors that drove midterm election results as well as to discuss what the results portend for 2008 and beyond. FORMAT The Post-Election Conference will feature one regional (Kansas/Missouri) panel session and two national panel sessions supplemented by an invited group of academicians, students and political aficionados who will comprise the interactive audience. The selection of the panelists is based on our desire to have practitioners, commentators or intimate observers in the 2006 election cycle. In some cases journalists are asked to moderate such panels, but here journalists are asked to contribute their opinions rather than manage the discussion. SCOTT REED Chairman/Founder, Chesapeake Enterprises; GOP Strategist; Former Executive Director, Republican National Committee; Campaign Manager, Dole for President ’96 ALAN SECREST President/CEO, Cooper & Secrest Associates Inc.; Democratic Pollster JERRY SEIB Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal, Washington, D.C. RAY STROTHER Principal and Co-founder, Strother-Duffy-Strother; National Democratic Media & Message Strategist JILL ZUCKMAN Chief Congressional Correspondent, The Chicago Tribune DAN BALZ National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post PETER BROWN Assistant Director, Polling Institute, Quinnipiac University; Former Political Journalist/Editor Washington, D.C., New England & Florida BILL BURTON Communications Director, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee CHRIS ESPOSITO Emily’s List, Dover Strategy Group JOE GAYLORD President, Chesapeake Associates; GOP Strategist; Former Executive Director, National Republican Congressional Committee; Adviser to Former Speaker Newt Gingrich JOE LENSKI executive vice president and co-founder, Edison Media Research; exit pollster for major television networks NATIONAL PANELISTS—POST-ELECTION 2006 CONFERENCE MODERATORS BILL LACY Director, Dole Institute; National Republican Strategist; White House Political Director, President Ronald Reagan JONATHAN EARLE Associate Director, Dole Institute; KU Professor of History; Ray Allen Billington Professor, Oxidental College