Respondent Panel

The Debaters Respondent Panel: Tom Schaller Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Moderator and critic: Ross Smith, Wake Forest University Debate Coach. He has author of the book, Whistling Past Dixie: How the Democrats Can Win Without the coached the 1997 National Debate TournamentChampions, was named National South, and coauthor of Devolution and Black State Legislators. A columnist for The Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1998, and Southeast Coach of the Year in 2000 and Washington Examiner and co-founder of Gadflyer.com, Schaller has written for The 2007. In Best of the Decade polling he was named Best Judge of the 1990's and New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The American Second Best Coach of the 1990's. Ross is also the founder and editor of, Prospect, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, and Salon, and has appeared on www.debatescoop.org , the nation’s only blog devoted to expert coverage of MSNBC, National Public Radio and C-SPAN. Tom earned his Ph. D. in political political candidate debates. science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Questioner and commenter: David Coates, Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Bob Moser Studies, Wake Forest University Department of Political Science. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments (available July 2007) that addresses the question of how best to get a Democratic win in 2008. His A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Bob Moser began his journalism career current research interests focus on ‘third way politics’ and on the response of in 1990, reporting on Southern culture and politics for The Independent Weekly in oraganized labour in both the UK and the US to the increasingly global nature of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. In 1995 he was named editor of The Independent, production and trade. which won more than 35 national awards for excellence in investigative reporting and writing under his leadership, including the Thurgood Marshall Award and the Questioner and commenter: Delmas Parker, Second Vice Chair of the North Batten Medal for outstanding humanitarian journalism in the United States. Moser Carolina Democratic Party, he has served at every level of politics in the Party, from was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the 2000-2001 academic the precinct level to the leadership of the State Party. Delmas has served as Ashe year. He was senior writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence County Chair, as Vice Chair of the 5th and 10th Congressional Districts, as Chair of Report from 2002 to 2005, winning several awards for his exposes of the rise of the 5th Congressional District, as a candidate for Congress in the 5th Congressional anti-immigration extremism and hate violence against the GLBT community. Along District, as a member of the State Executive Committee. Delmas lives in Clemmons the way, Moser has contributed feature articles to national magazines including and is married to Sue Lewis Parker. He has one son and three grandchildren. Rolling Stone and Out. His 2005 Rolling Stone story about the savage killing of transgendered Gwen Araujo, "The Murder of a Boy Named Gwen," won the 2006 GLAAD Media Award for outstanding magazine article of the year. Format:

Moser became senior editor of The Nation in 2005, and is now a contributing writer 2 minutes: Ross Smith, introduction. for the magazine. His forthcoming book, Dixiephobia, explores the history of anti- 8 minutes Schaller Southern bigotry and its crippling effects on the American progressive movement 8 minutes Moser and the national Democratic Party. He is teaming with photographer Lowell Handler 6 minutes Q and A by panelists, 2 minutes of time controlled by each. on a long-term project to document the social and cultural impact of Hispanic 7 minutes Schaller immigration on small towns in the Midwest and South, and will begin a biweekly 2 minutes questions by Moser campaign column on middle American politics for The Nation in June 2007. 7 minutes Moser 2 minutes questions by Schaller 5 minutes Moser 5 minutes Schaller 6 minutes concluding comments by panelists, 2 minutes each.

Post Debate Discussion: floor open for audience questions and comments: maximum 30 minutes.