actually score points which could help him in the next couple weeks if he follows that path. not sure if he will. imagine talking who s going to govern once in there? just going to be this country is so divided right now, and neither of the candidates seems to have, be talking about how they would unite people. seems to be the thing today, though, i have to say. i ve been asking the question, you brought it up. the idea hillary clinton needs to make an affirmative message for why she wants to be president. doug brinkley, you know, we ve been in this race now for 16 months. has that not broken through, the message? press secretary says, oh, no. talking about that all along. have they? or something missing? i think it s broken through, but in small groups. not with this overall message that people know what hillary clinton s main message, her vision for america. it s been kind of watered down a little bit. however, she does well with constituency groups.
attached to dollars and cents. that s what governor mcauliffe did. so at this point, it s sort of an open question whether the governor s line item will stand. but you re writing about another option that governor mcauliffe has in this situation, a possible public/private partnership to go forward with medicaid expansion. you say the governor could turn directly to the marketplace, invoking a republican-authored law in return for big profits operates a public program. that s how we got commuter express lanes added to the capital beltway and also toll finance tunnel linking port smith and norfolk. is that a real possibility? because one of the interesting things here is essentially the only people opposed to medicaid expansion are the republicans for ideological reason. all the interest group, the doctors, the insurers, the constituency groups. they all want medicaid expansion to go forward. well, keeping in mind that over the fours years of a mcauliffe governorship, nearly
it s pretty hard to dislodge these people. they re strongly in the base of the right wing party that doesn t want to hear about it. i ve talked to some aides who are close to some republicans who voted no on this and they said they know how bad it looks. not necessarily something they want to do, but they say the reality has become the united states senate, the way this works now is that a vote like this is simply a vote for gun control. it doesn t matter. you can t right. the constituency groups that you have to court to win your renomination, there is no more used to be able to this used to be procedural, we didn t pay attention. all this stuff gets boy is that tough. this is what s wrong. you want to know what s wrong in the united states senate? what s wrong in the united states senate, the idea a cloture vote, i m sorry i m using the term. i know what you know. this idea to close debate or open debate is somehow judged as a vote for or against that s a bi
this is simply a vote for gun control. it doesn t matter. you can t right. the constituency groups that you have to court to win your renomination, there is no more used to be able to this used to be procedural, we didn t pay attention. all this stuff gets boy is that tough. this is what s wrong. you want to know what s wrong in the united states senate? what s wrong in the united states senate, the idea a cloture vote, i m sorry i m using the term. i know what you know. this idea to close debate or open debate is somehow judged as a vote for or against that s a big development today. the nra put it out. they re going to score on the base of how you vote on this. this is what s wrong with the united states senate. that it s become this. and that s the problem. and you know, the irony is there are guys that voted no on this that didn t want to vote no on this but felt politically trapped that they had to do it and like i said, i ve talked to those. they say, yo
where is the economy is pretty good compared to the united states, but there are a lot of people who are concerned about the cost of living, how the the cost of housing is very high, the cost of electricity. other elements of daily life very high. also concern about sharing the burden. ultra orthodox members of the ultra orthodox community don t serve in the army and don t really particinate the economy. that s something that s a unique issue for israel. not relevant to the united states. that s something the middle class in israel, the ordinary folks who send their kids to the army, pay taxes, who work have real concerns about. sounds like you were giving advice to a democratic candidate, say, that was maybe too involved in special interests and telling them, hey stop deal with constituency groups. try dealing with what are people talking about every day. did you do focus groups? is that what you found out? we did focus groups, polling. we had a candidate who came with h