Undignified absurdity. It says suicide is bad because it is saying no to life and everything it means. The 29yearold was dying of brain cancer, and announced weeks ago that she wanted to die before the seizures and pain became unbearable. She took her own life over the weekend surrounded by family and friends. Now to decision 2014. It is election night. You see on the left the Capital Building under renovation right now, but washington, d. C. , is buzzing at this hour. Theres a lot on the line nationally and locally. The polls are starting to close on the east coast, but here theres still a few hours remaining for you to cast your vote. Some high profile races tonight. The bay areas biggest city is electing a new mayor. San jose is choosing between supervisor dave cortezi and sam lucardo. We have reporters across the area. Well start with robert honda at the county registrar of voters. Reporter we have seen a fairly steady stream of people dropping off ballots outside the registrar of
Republican Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chuck hassebrook. We welcome those joining us on adt television and radio where they can a. G. Web site and also Nebraska Broadcasters Association Member stations carrying us today and welcome to those joining us across the nation on cspan2. We are live tweeting this debate. Use the hashtag and e. T. Debate on twitter to follow us and you can give us your comments during and after the debate on our Facebook Page. For the next hour the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists and each other. The rules are pretty simple. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to respond to the question and if warranted me give a 30second rebuttal. Tonights debate is taking place before a live studio audience. We have asked the audience to refrain from a pausing or cheering because it will only take semifrom the candidates. Before we meet the candidates lets introduce the panel of journalists who will be asking the questions tonight. Fred knapp of net new
Class than the republicans are. The republican nominee has run a very personality centric campaign. She has talked about her career as a farmer, her career as a military veteran, someone engaging, someone using her personal biography in a very significant way. That is an advantage she has. Host steve in pennsylvania. Independent caller. Isler the media in general not keeping up to speed and neither are the candidates for the democratic or the republican parties, keeping up to speed with what is going on with the silent majority of the independent voters which is considered one third of the voting electorate. A very bigsue is thing in pennsylvania and a couple of other key states for the senate races. The opinion is being thrown out on the television by the media, they have not even affected the people on the streets. The street talk with neighbors and stuff like that is that the obamacare is also killing the middle class, especially in our area. I know of seven neighbors they cannot ge
President s term . Independents. All others. Send us a tweet. You can go to facebooked you can also email us. Start dialing in now. First the column for the Washington Post says the president should listen to the criticism. Writing in his piece this morning that, that anyone that knows leon panetta cannot be surprised if he has written a candid and insizive memoir. Goes on to say at the end of his column that panettas book is not the first time hes expressed frustration. A year ago, he lamented the changes in the culture of washington that he has seen. He says there was plenty of blame to go around. And today says there are many ways to convey a message to a pet he says. But sometimes a public bracing can be more effective. Main message is that obama will need to change. Restrictions sense to engage are no longer options. Frustration with Congressional Republicans or the political process or the culture isnt either. At this point, as panetta says, the jury is still out on obamas legacy
And im looking forward to this because im tired of listening to myself. I guess between the two of them, for close to 70 years neil and i go back 30 odd years. These are folks i have enjoyed being with and love watching their work. They are two great pros and two great people. Let me do a nutshell of where i am and then i want to get neil and stan and talk about what they are seeing out there. If you go back to the early part of last year, there were two competing scenarios two theories of what the 2014 Midterm Elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges facing the Republican Party in 2012 would flow into 2014 will stop the other was it would be a classic Midterm Election referendum on the incumbent president and all that entails. Two competing directions and it could have gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party, some of them were with key voting groups and some of it was their own, some of the things they were doing. The challenge of min