Most likely it will be weaker although again the eu has threatened of russia recognizes the upcoming elections, they will increase sanctions. So its going a lot of Different Directions right now. But if the sanctions are weakened in march, and there are lots of European Countries who are advocating for lessening the sanctions, including italy, hungary, luxembourg, a whole bunch of countries are being hurt themselves by the sanctions. So indeed it is a change in the sanctions policy, then putin wouldve succeeded in kind of pursuing this divide and conquer strategy that will give him more leeway in terms of how he deals with the eu. There are lots of different variables in terms of how you approach the ukrainian question. What about venezuela . Venezuela was a constant thorn in side of the United States partly because it would use its Oil Resources to prop up the cube and other countries. How does this decline affect venezuelas projection of influence . Its a great question. What we see
Family, the farmers that we have broader districts those that work on the coastline here in the district are at we have such a diverse district here and the folks in this district need a voice and being a voice for the american cancer society, being a voice in edgewater park, i am looking to take it one step further and be a voice for the people of the Third District of south jersey the hardworking middle class folks in the women who are without a voice right now, as we have seen most recently with some of the discussions about equal pay in this country, we need a voice for our veterans and we have seen the systemic problems in the va system and we need a voice for the seniors whether its social security, medicare, that is exactly what we will be in congress, is the voice for the people of south new jersey that i have grown up with and who i love so much. Thank you. I also want to thank you for the opportunity. Macarthur i want to touch on talk versus action, namely the constituency gr
Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
Liveday night on cspan, coverage of the iowa senate debate. Sunday, live at 6 00 p. M. Comedy michigan governors debate. Cspan campaign 2014, more than 100 debates for the control of congress. Part of that coverage included this weeks pennsylvania governors debate. Heres a brief look. Are aboutlections Public Policy. Doing everything in our power to make pennsylvania stronger and democracy stronger. Is one more way of limiting the franchise and keeping people from voting. It is antidemocratic. Governor corbett . I disagree. It makes sure that one person has one vote. The courts overturned it based on the procedures put in place. Wouldt were to come back, the procedures change, then i would say yes. I want to make sure, in areas s, whereere is primarie the primary winner is going to beatty winner, we need to make sure one person is voting one time. I had a followup question. Some states feel we have passed the point, historically, where oftain groups are in danger losing their voting ri
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