durable equal librium. they could write that off because their quarterly profits are breaking records and the question is, are they right or are they wrong? if they re right, that is a serious and deep and profound problem for the democrats and for the american political economy down the road and with that, robert wolf, i m sorry, i m not going to let you respond. really appreciate it. thank you. some of the less talked about political races this season could have more of an impact than who wins the white house. coming up next. why not make lunch more than just lunch?
move into their final stages. these races matter more and more as control of congress becomes more fluid and contested, especially on domestic issues. with the exception of a few brief interregnums the democrats controlled both houses of congress and then came the so-called republican revolution in 1994 that turned capitol hill upside down and democratic sweep in 2006 that seized control of the house back and the tea party backlash of 2010 that gave president obama the most obstructive and implacable in generations. the nature of which took a while to sink in in the oval office. president obama said, i think there were many times in my first couple years when i kept on sitting there trying to see if we can negotiate some sort of. as the last two years have illustrated the republican party makes congressional control
i love new technology, so when i heard that american express and twitter were teaming up, i was pretty interested. turns out you just sync your american express card securely to your twitter account, tweet specific hashtags, and you ll get offers on things you love. this totally changes the way i think about membership. saving money on the things you want. to me, that s the membership effect. nice boots! on thursday president obama will close the democratic national convention in charlotte. here s the dnc chair, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa earlier this week. the whole sort of culmination of the whole week is at bank of america stadium. yeah, democrats and i know a
arguably more important than ever. we wanted to hear directly from some of the democratic candidates in house and senate races because these are the people who hear directly from the voters. which is the reason why we invited five candidates to join us this morning. here with me is rob, paul ryan s challenger and hakim jeffries and cynthia dill and nate, democratic congressman from new york s 23rd congressional district and joining us from phoenix is kirsten, a democratic candidate for the new ninth congressional district. nice to have you all here. nice to be here. i want to talk about the role that incumbency plays and this is especially true for two of you. rob, you re running against an incumbent whose name is familiar and rob you re running against tom reid. former mayor of corning, right? a republican. and he s the district has been
bunch of literature are calling it panther stadium. do you have a problem with a mega bank sponsor? i don t have a problem with the sponsor and whoever is talking about the panthers do play there and what are you calling it sph. i m calling it the football stadium. purchased by a major u.s. bank highlights some of the contradictions of the u.s. democratic party. as the labor in the democratic party has diminished in the past two decades, two things have happened. inequality has risen and campaigns have become much, much, much more expensive. in turn, democrats have learned to the finance sector for funding. $22 million to john mccain s $13 million. that mountain of wall street cash serves to heighten the contradicks in the modern democratic party while the republicans can protect the interest of capital the democratic party must try to