Potential voter. A columnist i usually only agree with about movies put it this way. Romney didnt say that the election had come out as it did because obamas team had outplayed and outfoxed his. He should have because thats the truth. Rather, he said that obama had won the second term essentially through bribery. Well, look, i have three rules for both parties as they converge now to do their squoobs. Respect the voter, respect each others offices, and search hard for common ground. Those are what we should be doing and that should be the way were guiding our countrys conversation today. Not trashing the people who voted against you. But respecting the fact that they did for your own good. David corn is Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and joy reid is managing editor of the grio. Both are msnbc political analysts. Lets take a look at some of the stuff from john mccain here. Its been four years since john mccain lost his president ial bid. Just ten days since mitt romney lost, b
Everybody. It is august 4th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Lets start with the coronavirus. So despite the number of cases here in the United States climbing and the death toll growing, the president is continuing to paint a rosy picture of this pandemic. Right now infections are surging in some midwestern states that did not previously have high case rates. Over the past week, missouri, montana, and oklahoma have seen a large increase in the percentage of case numbers and there are new warning signs in new jersey. A state that appeared to have flattened its curve, nbc news is showing the cases have spiked 175 in the last two weeks, but the president claiming yesterday that the u. S. Is starting to see declining signs. Were beginning to see evidence of significant progress. I have to add that the virus is rece receding. In hot spots across the south and west, weve seen slow improvements from their recent weekly peaks. We must focus on the flareups where new cases have risen including geor
Program that cuts back on medicaid in order to have tax cut for wealthy people, but we do need to deal with the cost of the individual market and the premiums. One way to do that is to make sure that the cost sharing is a predictable payment to the Insurance Companies to cover the cost deductibles and copays. Another thing we can do is improve subsidies for lower income families. Democrats and reins cpublicans o that together. Democrats and republicans can bring down the cost of prescriptio prescriptions. We could follow a canadian mod e. We could organize the patient as Value Reimbursement rather than just volume. Do you accept the idea that repeal and replace of obamacare is a mandate for the republican majorities . There is an agreement here, im trying to think of this almost like middle east peace, first negotiate the the ceasefire and then agree, the democrat agree Obamacare Needs Major Reforms and heres what were willing to talk about. What are you willing on your end to talk abo
37. brand new cnn poll out this morning shows independent voters breaking for democrats in this year s midterms, 53 to 39%, 14-point gap. that s significant, though slightly less from elections in 2006 and 2010. as len bulger recently tweeted it s not clear whether democrats have, quote, solved our problem with independent voters and that will be the difference between winning and losing in close races. for all of washington s obsession with base politics, independents are the largest segment of the electorate. republicans and democrats have around 30%, self identified independent voters have averaged 43% in 2018. ten states where registered independent voters outnumber registered republicans or democrats. iowa, colorado and new hampshire. in an election that trump has described as a referendum on his presidency, approval between
because he s taken it just a notch too far? i don t know the answer to that question but i think he is really testing the limits. this is precisely what glen bulger the republican poster said, i have no doubt, a republican pollster, that we have livened our base from what it was in september. what i have a doubt about, what i have a question mark about is where are we with independents or some of those other folks that we need to bring on board in addition? they are mpg tanking them. they know that. also for women in those suburban districts. trump is down 20 points. you look at all the districts where trump won by a couple percentage points republicans are not polling well there. and you have 41 open republican seats, including in a lot of places in these suburban districts where women are going to make the difference. my point is in marginal statewided you could lose ground in suburban areas that cost you