brown voters, especially in a primary skew a little bit older skew a step more conservative than say the young black activists. that doesn t matter when we talk about how much he might be punished for a thing like the crime bill. beyond all of that, what we know is that black voters generally like, especially in a primary, like politicians they are familiar with and fluent in, who they know, who have been around. joe biden definitely gets points for that. but they also want people who can win. even when you go back to barack obama and john edwards and hillary clinton, barack obama did not get black support until he won iowa, right? so at this point joe biden is polling so far in front of everyone else that black voters are kind of saying, well, we re going with the winner because we think it s important to beat donald trump, right? this is not theoretical for us. we need the democrat to win. if someone else wins iowa and if someone else wins new hampshire, those candidates might see a
is he a stronger, more competent, more knowledgeable somebody rooted in certain values and principles than his opponent? that s the choice americans have. okay. did romney seem to you the other night somebody deeply competent in, deeply fluent in, somebody who has a firm compass on foreign policy issues or not? that s the question americans have to face. okay. same thing with economic issues. same thing with social issues. so the answer to that, no, mitt romney wasn t. we said it here on the show. yesterday for three hours. just as i don t believe barack obama s competent when it comes to getting people back to work. but my larger point is on the torture issue or on the bush/cheney approach to terrorism, whether you talk about tripling the number of troops in afghanistan, whether you talk about drone warfare, whether you talk about killing