And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. But thats not my question. My question really is, my question really is, is there something about substantial third Party Candidacies that exemplify pivotal election and should we expect this coming election will be pivotal only if there is a substantial thirdparty candidacy and probably not otherwise . Thats a thats a super question. I that is that is i hadnt thought
But if youre going to be chief executive and leader of your party, you have to take tough positions and upset people, manipulate people and ultimately that can undermine your ability to be chief of state. Now people like eisenhower came up with creative ways of solving that. But all of those roles theyre diflth to play and they often conflict. I think the constant News Coverage that we have today will bar us on what we consider a great president. If they were under the same scrutiny, these ones like fdr and others perhaps our view of them would be completely different. If we knew their faults, may we would think they arent all that great. But they had the benefit of not having that whereas now we have constant News Coverage. Yeah, matt. I think potentially the next president we have could be great in the sense that were fighting terrorism pretty seriously, especially with what recently just happened. And the idea that if a republican is elected theyre going to try to do something with
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80s today. But they are falling as a cold front moves in tonight. With the cold front we will see area of low pressure develop Early Morning to bring part of the area rain overnight to early tomorrow morning. 48 to 56. More big changes in the weather. We will highlight that in a few minutes. Maureen thank you, doug. Stay connected to the strong watch 7 weather team and get alerts when Severe Weather moves in. You can follow us on any of the social media platforms. Go to wjla. Com to sign up for text alerts to be sent to your phone. There are new details on what happened when a man opened fire at Greyhound Bus station. He killed trooper chad dermyer. We have the late tend criminal history of the shooter. Kevin that is the state Police Trooper of chad dermyer. All day today people have been dropping off grieving the loss and offering support to the Virginia State police. This comestote as we are learning more information about the suspect. 34yearold james brown of aurora, illinois. James
Temperatures in the upper 60s. Are you kidding me . Were above our average High Temperature and the sun is not even up yet. The next 24 hours will be a lot milder than average for sure. Cloud gi skies, temperatures in the upper 60s by 7 00 a. M. Upper 70s to near 80 degrees today. P take the umbrella with you. We have a couple chances for rain mid to late morning and again mid to late afternoon. By the time you get to your saturday morning, well start off with clouds and rain chances. Well time it out coming up. He was just asked to do the hammer dance, which is the worst idea ever. 66 east at fairfax drive, that crash has moved out of the way. Beltway inner loop and outer loop, again, looking quite good. Nice and green. In hollywood, three notch road at exploration drive, lanes blocked because of a car into a building. 270 at montrose, no worries there. See you back here at but i dont think ill do it this morning. It was another violence neat of storms in the south. Look at this video