Bangkok--Sep 30--Francom Asia
Featuring the most experienced U.S. political journalism team in the world, CNN is to offer comprehensive international coverage of the 2004 race for the White House, set to be one of the most fiercely contested races in living memory.
Jonathan Mann, Richard Quest and Becky Anderson are among the team of CNN International global anchors and correspondents to explain the jargon, nuances and political resonance of the event in the U.S. and around the world.
Senior White House correspondents, anchors and analysts including John King, Judy Woodruff, Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and Bill Schneider also bring their unequalled political experience from Washington. With U.S. foreign policy as a major focal point for CNN’s coverage of the election, CNN is dedicated to offering regional perspectives to its viewers around the world, with special reports bringing both global and local perspectives on the Presidential campaign trail.
There will be special programming around the election includes the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates live
CNN’S U.S. ELECTION PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS
October 1, live at 09:00 HKT and replayed at 16:00 HKT
First Presidential debate, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
October 6, at 09:00 HKT and replayed at 16:00 HKT
Vice Presidential debate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
October 9, live at 09:00 HKT and replayed at 16:00 HKT
Second Presidential debate, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
October 14, live at 09:00 HKT and replayed at 16:00 HKT
Third Presidential debate, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
(PLEASE NOTE THE ABOVE TIMES AND DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
TEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT U.S. PRESIDENTS
by CNN’s senior political analyst Bill Schneider
-Election 2004 will be the 55th Presidential election.
-The Electoral College (The outcome of the vote in each state determines a slate of ‘electors’ who then, in turn, make the actual choice for President through the college) elected George Washington as the first president on February 4, 1789.
-George W. Bush is the fourth person to have won the Presidency despite losing the popular vote. The other three were one-term Presidents. (Both John Quincy Adams and Benjamin Harrison were defeated for re-election; Rutherford B. Hayes did not to run again.)
-George W. Bush is the first President to win the White House despite losing both New York and California in the general election -- the two states with the largest number of electoral votes.
-Two U.S. Presidents have been impeached - Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998. Both were acquitted and not removed from office.
-Only Richard Nixon has resigned from office. He resigned in 1974 when the House of Representatives was on the verge of impeaching him.
-John F. Kennedy was the only Catholic President. The rest have been Protestant.
-James Buchanan is the only President not married when he held office.
-Ronald Reagan is the only President to have been divorced.
-The Independent candidate who did best was Ross Perot in 1992 (19 percent of the vote).
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