i hope every young person who is listening, don t believe this idea that your vote does not matter. in 2000, in gore vs. bush, 537 votes changed the direction of history. in a profound way. and the same thing could happen here. so, so are the chat shows and mtv the best way to appeal to voters. this is not a good sign to team obama. joining us to explain editor at large editor jonah goldberg. great to see you this morning. great to be here. what s wrong with this idea of going on mtv and holding these town halls, think of bill clinton did that back in the day. trying to appeal to some these voters in that final stretch. going on the view. going on letterman. going on leno for people who might be otherwise tuned out to politics? well, and that sort of gets to the point right there. right? social scientists call a lot of these people low information voters. what they don t mention is that below low information voters is another group called
and aikin s rape comments? has there been enough time that folks have forgotten about him? can they win this thing? they might not have forgotten, or either people have forgiven or he has been able to increase his base vote who people want to defend him. this is the reason in politics why people often resist any call to drop out or to quit because people do get second chances, and this is an example where he did find a second act, even after mitt romney urged him to drop out. now the race is competitive. beth fouhy, lynn sweet, i always appreciate your insight. thanks for being with me on a saturday. thanks, craig. hurricane sandy already having an impact on the presidential campaign. we ll tell you what it s changing for candidates and where that monster of a storm is headed now. and i m here in the sunshine state in florida where early in-person voting started today. up next, how to win florida by more than 537 votes, hopefully. hopefully it won t be that close this time arou
much smaller numbers. as we ve seen from the polls, it s going to be a close one this year, maybe even election 2000 close. you remember that year? a minuscule three-digit margin, just 537 votes in only one state, florida, tipped the election to george w. bush. maybe it was just one vote on the supreme court. you get my point. it s why this year small numbers can have a big impact on the election. as first lady michelle obama reminded an audience in wisconsin late last week. it could all come down to just a few battleground states, like right here in wisconsin, states that could be decided by just a few thousand votes. when you take that number and you spread those votes out across this entire state, you know, across hundreds of cities and thousands of wards, it becomes smaller, right? so when you break it down, it turns out that just a handful of votes in every ward could make all the difference in this
college students have a lot on their plates. there is the possibility they may not choose to vote at all. take a look. i hope every young person who is listening don t believe this idea your vote does not matter. in 2000, in gore versus bush, 537 votes changed the direction of history. in a profound way. the same thing could happen here. billy, is that a message resonating with you and your peers? that is absolutely a message resonating with us. if you look at some of the classrooms in florida, that number president obama said, 537, there are classrooms at the university of florida larger than that. thinking a single class at the university of florida going out to vote can make the difference who is going to lead in our country for the next four years. we are pretty much working every single day to make sure we can get and talk to every single student to encourage them to get out to vote early. katie, these final days of
changed the course of american history. florida is too close to call. the difference between what was and what could have been. so, this year if you re thinking that your vote doesn t count, that it won t matter, well, back then there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. president obama became the first sitting president to vote early yesterday in his hometown of chicago. he joked he couldn t tell anyone who he voted for, but you ve got to see what happened when he walked in. the poll worker asked for his license. i need some i.d. oh, you re right. oh, no, i ve got my driver s license. here you go. now, ignore the fact that there s no gray hair in that picture. and another first, meatloaf is making a political endorsement for mitt romney. he said it s the most important