Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making his Closing Argument to the nation from the south. And he co
Day to grieve on his own, then that night he came to North Carolina just hours before the polls were due to open across the country. President obama did one last rally. A huge one. 25,000 people in the rain at the university of North Carolina in charlotte. He talked about his grandmother that night. He said, shes gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. He said, im not going to talk about her too long, because it is hard for me to talk about. So with hours to go until election day, president ial candidate barack obama, that night before the election in 2008, he stood in the rain in charlotte and he cried during his speech. And he gave liz Closing Argument for why he should be president of the United States. And it was a very powerful moment because of that raw, human emotion, but it was also a powerful political moment because here it was the night before a president ial election and it is a big deal that the democratic president ial candidate is making h
Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo
And its less than an hours drive from my Congressional District. We mourn all the people who lost their lives on friday, including 20 Elementary School children and six educators. Over the past few years, we have seen innocent lives lost to gun violence in a supermarket parking lot in arizona, a Movie Theater in colorado, an army base in texas, a College Campus in virginia and now an Elementary School in connecticut. The weapons have spawned these tragedies and long past time that we control them. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms but does not guarantee an absolute right to militarystyle, high caliber, semiautomatic, combatassault rifles with high capacity magazines to anybody who wants them. It just does not and must not let Interest Groups persuade us otherwise. We need restrictions and sensible gun control legislation. We need them here and we need them now. Our children are counting on us and we really need to not let them down. I yield back. Mr. Murphy i yield
Sean hannity. I think its probably unwitting on his part but if you want to know and understand the psyche and the mood and the Strategic Thinking thats guiding the Republican Party at any given moment well hannity is just an unusually good barometer of that. To me thats what makes him unique. They have all their own quirks and hes first and foremost a Republican Party man and wants the democrats to look bad and lose. Hes more than happy to completely reverse himself or totally ignore past pronouncement of principle if it serves that underlying agenda. The contortions this requires can be absurd but if you pay close enough attention can be very revealing. Because what hes really doing is expressing the message, the strategy thats gaining favor or thats in favor at that moment among republicans. Case in point, the debate over immigration. In the immediate wake of last novembers election, its an election that republicans like hannity were absolutely convinced they were going to win right