think both on economics, his social policies, i think, fit with the better educated, and frankly, he s a more sophisticated candidate than we ve seen come out of the republican party, who appeals to better educated men who lives in the suburbs, who has can kids. yeah. let me go to matt cooper on that. and that is an interesting question. i assume women, because of all the numbers we so in all of our lives, are more for same-sex marriage, are more for gay rights, generally. are more empathetic to the gay community. and number two, they re clearly more concerned about abortion rights and contraception issues. men are more conservative them, but does that mean you have to go after men who basically agree with women on social issues? well, to some degree, i think mark s right. i mean, you re trying to go after more affluent, better-educated men rather than white working class men who are starting to look like a lost cause for obama. you know, in our own congressional connection poll we
i think both on economics, his social policies i think fit with the better educate, and frankly he s a more sophisticated candidate than we have seen paro better educated men who lives in the suburbs, who has can kids. yeah. let me go to matt cooper on that. and that is an interesting question. i assume women, because of all the numbers we so in all of our lives, are more for same-sex marriage, are more for gay rights, generally. are more empathetic to the gay community. and number two, they re clearly more concerned about abortion rights and contraception issues. men are more conservative them, but does that mean you have to go after men who basically agree with women on social issues? well, to some degree, i think mark s right. i mean, you re trying to go after more affluent, better-educated men rather than white working class men who are starting to look like a lost cause for obama. you know, in our own congressional connection poll we do in national journal, it just drops off
republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, november 22nd. ali and christine are off this morning. i m alina cho along with carol costello on this american morning. so glad you re with us. glad you re with us. up first this morning, breaking news out of cairo. three americans arrested outside the interior ministry in tahrir square accused of throwing molotov cocktails. thousands of demonstrators are packed into the square for a million-man sit-in. a short distance away, our reporter says soldie
in washington, just strikes me as gold. nine out of ten people agree with the occupiers on that issue. well, that s right, and it s echoed in our own congressional connection poll with two-thirds of respondents saying they support protesters, two-thirds saying they support the democratic idea of the sir fax on millionaires, even a third of republicans we polled support that. people i think, chris, got so clobbered by this recession. you know, it wasn t like earlier recessions where it hit some regions harder than others and spared a few people. everybody got washed over by this tsunami. so i don t think it s that surprising if you think about it that they re pretty irate at th financial whizzes who got us into the mess. michelle, your thoughts on the sentiment. it s hard to define exactly what the people on the street are saying, the occupiers. there s a mix to some extent. the people in the country seem to know what those people want. right. despite all of the hand wringing abou
gold for the elizabeth warrens of this world, who s up there running for congress, up against scott brown, in the senate up there in massachusetts, the thae consumer needs protection against the power of wall street lobbyists, the big shot, highly paid people down in washington just strikes me as gold. nine out of ten people agree with the occupiers on that issue. that s right. and it s echoed in our own congressional connection poll with two-thirds of respondents saying they support the protesters. two-thirds saying they promote the democratic idea of a surtax on millionaires. even a third of republicans polled support that. people got so clobbered by this recession. it wasn t like earlier recessions. everybody got washed over by this tsunami. so i don t think it s that surprising if you think about it, that they re pretty i ate rat the financial whizzes who got it into this. michelle, your thoughts on the sentiments here? i know it s hard to define