don t want to send someone to washington, d.c. that says i m going to be the chief filibus r filibuster. there are people back here that will do that. what we need is cooperation. a minute left. i want you both to take this from facebook. we ve partnered up with the facebook politics page. here is one we chose. ashley newberg. what do you hope to accomplish, fwhoeth your political career and in life in general, outside of politics? you have to be very brief. mr. buck? in my political career, i would like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment and in my life i would like to play more golf and get a decent handicap. there you go. i spent my whole life outside of politics. this is my first exposure to it. i hope to be able to accomplish a set of policies that create more opportunity, not less for our kids and our grandkids outside of politics i hope to raise my three little girls to be productive and happy citizens. we ll leave it there. thank you both. early voting s
don t want to send someone to washington, d.c. that says i m going to be the chief filibus r filibuster. there are people back here that will do that. what we need is cooperation. a minute left. i want you both to take this from facebook. we ve partnered up with the facebook politics page. here is one we chose. ashley newberg. what do you hope to accomplish, fwhoeth your political career and in life in general, outside of politics? you have to be very brief. mr. buck? in my political career, i would like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment and in my life i would like to play more golf and get a decent handicap. there you go. i spent my whole life outside of politics. this is my first exposure to it. i hope to be able to accomplish a set of policies that create more opportunity, not less for our kids and our grandkids outside of politics i hope to raise my three little girls to be productive and happy citizens. we ll leave it there. thank you both. early voting s
successful lawyer. and gop candidate christine o donnell down in the polls, but still grabbing the headlines. you re just jealous that you weren t on saturday night live. i m dying to see who s going to play me, christine. one of the tight races that could tip the balance of power is in colorado, where recent polls show a single-digit race as our special senate debate continues, michael bennet with as our special senate debate continues, michael bennet with his challenger, ken buck. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. for the first time today this election season, the president and the first lady hit the campaign trail together, heading to ohio. with just 16 days until the election, is there anything the president can do to stop republicans from a major victory on november 2nd? joining me now, white house press secretary, robert gibbs. welcome back to meet the press. thank you. we are just 16 days away. something in the washington po
of the mess that took us a long time to get into. just this morning, ap story out, showing the poll. many obama 2008 supporters defecting to the gop. in many ways it s become a referendum on the president and his policies. i m a little leery of polls that take three weeks to conduct just as a political professional. again, we re in a tough political environment because the country is in a tough economic environment. 9.6% unemployment, 8 million jobs that have been lost. we have candidates that are out there, making their positive case, because we know exactly what the republican party wants to do. david, they said it sitting probably right in the chair i m sitting in. they want to go back to what we had in 2008. they want to repeal things like wall street reform and putting banks back in charge of making financial decisions that affect not just wall street but affect main street. at the end of the day, people are going to understand that message and not turn over control
successful lawyer. and gop candidate christine o donnell down in the polls, but still grabbing the headlines. you re just jealous that you weren t on saturday night live. i m dying to see who s going to play me, christine. one of the tight races that could tip the balance of power is in colorado, where recent polls show a single-digit race as our special senate debate continues, michael bennet with as our special senate debate continues, michael bennet with his challenger, ken buck. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. for the first time today this election season, the president and the first lady hit the campaign trail together, heading to ohio. with just 16 days until the election, is there anything the president can do to stop republicans from a major victory on november 2nd? joining me now, white house press secretary, robert gibbs. welcome back to meet the press. thank you. we are just 16 days away. something in the washington po