monday. you always want that. make no mistake about it, bill. the thing that republicans need to recognize is this is not a great vote for the republican party. it s against them. anti-democrat and anti-protest vote. get the minimum would be the house of representatives is a lease on power in one branch of one branch. that s not huge. they will then have the opportunity. bill: makes barack obama s road a lot harder. that s true. bill: you were covering bill clinton when he got whacked in 94, right? right. so i want to have you on next week to compare what the obama reaction will be on wednesday, thursday to what the clinton reaction was. because the president is going to lose a lot of his power. there is no question. he has already lost a lot of it certainly is he going to lose at love power. his ability to forward major liberal initiatives is over
monday. you always want that. make no mistake about it, bill. the thing that republicans need to recognize is this is not a great vote for the republican party. it s against them. anti-democrat and anti-protest vote. get the minimum would be the house of representatives is a lease on power in one branch of one branch. that s not huge. they will then have the opportunity. bill: makes barack obama s road a lot harder. that s true. bill: you were covering bill clinton when he got whacked in 94, right? right. so i want to have you on next week to compare what the obama reaction will be on wednesday, thursday to what the clinton reaction was. because the president is going to lose a lot of his power. there is no question. he has already lost a lot of it certainly is he going to lose at love power. his ability to forward major liberal initiatives is over
i think there is, when we what we are seeing is a backlash against the whole last two years and the way the democrats have governed. obama did not campaign from the left, he campaigned as somebody who was going to change the way washington did business, who was going to reach across the partisan aisle, and instead it has been i think governing from the left, huge government programs, stimulus, health care reform, financial reform, huge government spending, great increase in government s role in the lives of every day americans, and in the lives of business, and i think it is really a repudiation of all of that. martha: if that ils the case it may bode well, because, anti-democrat and anti-republicans, before the current administration, we see as well, is a big question for all of us on tuesday night, but let s look at one more of these polls, among people who say they are absolutely certain that they will vote, g.o.p. and g.o.p.
incumbent in the west virginia primary and did it by stressing mollohan s ethic investigations and ol vare yo supports traditional marriage and wants to find someone better than nancy pelosi to be speaker. he maybe this week s poster boy for anti-incumbent fever but he has been in the west virginia state senate since 1994 one thing he is, a shoo n he faces west virginia republican party chairman mckinley in november. joining me to talk this over, democratic strategist, paul beg good la and republican neil newhouse. anti-incumbent, more than anti-democrat? it is part of both. number one it is it is anti-democrat, but voters aren t happy with anybody in washington right now. and the congressional ratings are at historic lows, 20%. any incumbent ought to be aware that they could be in trouble. they could be the next alan
they re on the ballot in november, he isn t. he s continuing to push things, bill, because even if he serves two full terms, he will never, he will never have anywhere close to this number of democratic congressmen and senators again. bill: i know what you re not getting. this is his one opportunity. bill: he may not be on the ballot, larry, but the democrats he s the democrats, he is he the face, if you don t like obama, air not going to vote for any democrats. no, that s absolutely true, especially if you re the one turning up in november and i ve already said i think disproportionately people showing up. bill: you re angry people turning up in november will be anti-obama and anti-democrat anti-democratic and so republicans do you think things are going to get worse. we ll see, that s why we track every day. i think the economy is going to be a big factor, if it starts doing bet sneer that will take the edge off. if it takes off in the fall