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president s 08 campaign. what is your response to that one. you guys have to love joe biden. every time he speaks, there s a news story. i would say this. i would disagree with what the vice president said. i think there were two things about that time period granted the race was close. but two things in that time period, the picking of sarah palin which i think hurt john mccain even after the initial buzz. and when lee mon collapsed when the economy started to accelerate in a downturn, i think people watched the reaction of the two candidates and came away from the fact that mckin didn t seem as steady in a crisis as they wanted. and real brand damage to the republican party as a result of eight years of president bush. i don t think in the end john mccain would have won that race. maybe it would have been closer but i agree with john mccain in this case. the outcome without have been
chart, with the worst ratings, the republican party, the brand has been hurt during the election and it has been hurt badly. the reason for that is there is not a positive message that people associate with the republicans, not jobs, or economic growth or cutting spending, and not reforming entitlements, nothing. bottom line, unless the republicans fix this they will be in deep, deep trouble going forward. we have another number here we will go to showing the second week in a row on the generic ballot. gregg: ten points for the second week in a row, this is the worst result since 2009, the brand damage, not only do they not have a positive message they do not have a contrast challenge
running in excuse me running in blue states like scott brown in massachusetts, like linda edgele in hawaii, they were not able to win and i put that as brand damage. you had a great panel on earlier that talked about how the republican brand is so badly damaged right now, that even their moderates can t win if they re in enemy districts while democratic moderates can win when they re in enemy districts. that goes back to this retooling that republicans just have to do if they re going to be competitive in the future in terms of demographics and in terms of social and cultural issues. of course, democrats are still challenged. they picked up seats but they re challenged in the house. there s a lot of talk about what s going to happen with the house democratic leadership. what are you hearing about nancy pelosi and whether she s going to hang in or turn the leadership over to someone else? i m not hearing anything, but to me the two most likely