Pressing thoughts they would like to address with the panel. Right here in the front. The flaw in the current law . There is defamation, intimidation whenever we have a high profile case, theres a from people who think they can solve the problem or people who were injured who want a new law specifically for that issue. Why do we need a new law in this case . Do you want to start . Rights work did not start with any high profile case. Years ago when average people were being affected by this. This has been something that is happening private citizens for years. This is not some high profile case we are responding to out of a sense of now that has happened to someone famous we care. We care about this because the experience of victims has been that none of these laws work. If the image is out there, if it was not necessarily by someone trying to harass, and many of them do not, just to give you a concrete example, just a couple of weeks ago, the Highway Patrol officers who have arrested
Name calling between boehner and mcconnell, but its not going to be that much easier for things to move smoothly through the house and then through the senate, including many of those bills that passed the house the last time. One comment we havent talked much about president ial consequences. This election was very good for Hillary Clinton, if she decides to run, not only because it puts a crimp in the potential campaign of my former student, Martin Omalley, who isnt going to be helped by the fact that it was his administration and Lieutenant Governor who were repudiated in a big way in that state, but i think democrats now are shocked enough that winning the presidency in 2016 takes a higher priority in this unprecedented effort to unite ehind a candidate. We also see a significant boost for scott walker, for john kasich, who now becomes at least a factor on the national stage. And keep your eye, not as a president ial prospect but as a serious potential running mate, brian sandoval,
Would be certainly the likely candidate. But the other thing is perhaps there was a report a couple weeks ago about the potential Lindsey Graham for 2016. He was bored. But to the point of there will be sort of this jocking for a position on Foreign Policy matters. And senator graham from South Carolina who david mentioned had really not erased for his own reelection. Hes certainly in this camp with mccain,. Rubio seems to be in that group. Im interested to watch is what the senator from New Hampshire is who is up in 2016. And New Hampshire was the one place on the senate map where there was a close contested race that was supposed to be a close contested race and the democrat held on. Scott brown is not returning to the senate. Senator shaheen won reelection. Shes always with mccain or often with mccain and graham on that sort of thing and shell be an interesting one to watch there to. The three amigos. I think mccain tweeted out there will be a new member of he amigos. The isis threa
Would recognize them. The counties, you never would. Gardner ran behind romney. It was a rural issue, not an acrosstheboard issue. The same thing is true in other places as well. Iowa, its less obvious but the same distinction prevails. Then the question is, what does this mean for 2016 if what were seeing is not a uniform swing but a localized swing . And is this a turnout question . Well, ive done two states, colorado and iowa, and colorado keeps moving up. But the differential, if you compare 2014 turnout to the 2012 turnout, is not very great. Its slightly higher as far as the percentage of people voting in rural areas versus urban areas, in 2014 versus 2012, but not enough to explain the difference. The reason joni ernst won is not because republicans were an unusual share of the electorate. The reason why cory gardner is the new senator from colorado is because he won persuadables and a few of them within the denver metro area, not because of massive turnout differentials. If tha