to level the playing field. in indiana, you have joe donley coming out saying he s for background checks. the numbers you talked about earlier today, pretty staggering. the overall numbers suggest maybe a little bit of the support has waned. for background checks state by state, those numbers are still very, very high. where is the disconnect? i know we ve talked about this intensity gap. it feels like we are doing people are trying to do, and the president was sure pretty hot about it today saying call your member of congress. what s going to be the thing that makes it up? well, the thing is, you know where there s not an insensit e insensitivity gap, the women standing behind the president. if you lost your child, a 6-year-old, or had a daughter who her whole life wanted to teach like that dad who teared up in that ad. a member of your family has been shot dead and lost their life for no reason, as the president said in a blink of an eye, all their future gone. you don t have a
that s right. a 10% position. that s right. you can either be a 10%er who says get whatever you want, as much as you want, whether you have good purposes or bad, or be a 90%er who says let s do something about it. but joy, it s not a simple 90%/10% equation. if it were, things would be pretty good for the 90% side. we talked about this, you and i, over the last few months. there is this thing called the intensity gap. if you look at the people who want to have an armed society, like the nraers, you know, you ask them about their top ten list of things they care most about, having guns and high-capacity magazines is not just one, it s one, two, three, four, five, maybe six and seven. the rest of the country, which sees this has being somewhat crazy, says, you know, we really don t want this, but we re also concerned with other things. it s not guns and the possession of ammunition are not the, you know, or the fight against it, is not the main focus of our lives.
rove was the architect of the referendum in ohio in 2004, which was a bigoted referendum to potentially get republicans to the polls for fear of the gay marriage issue. that s right. i have a quick question. julian, i m going to start with you. as a woman, why is it i feel like republicans huff and puff about the need to check your background when it comes to voting. they seem to want to get all up in my business as a woman. but they reject even the mention of a background check and say that the government should get out of our business when it comes to firearms. julian, explain this to me. hard to understand, but i think another area where the electorate is getting away from them as everyone has pointed out. we re talking about huge majorities on background checks and majorities even on assault weapons and clips. i think this is an issue where the republicans are counting on the intensity gap on gun issues. but i think that intensity gap is going to change as well. it s going to
republican primary, but what about the national. reporter: brand. it s now at 47% today, down from a high of 57%, at least in that poll. ruth marcus commented on this, sort of the softening on the issue in the public and where it can go in congress. she said in the washington post there comes a point where advocates have to stop letting the perfect by the enemy of the good. the clal includes is different. background checks with recordkeeping won t get 60 votes necessary to pass the senate or stand any without recordkeeping will. are we at the point where democrats and people who favor gun control will have to settle for the adequate, because even the public is backing away from. thrive done that already. they re warted it down a lot, and this is a classic political science issue of an intensity gap. the people who care about the second amendment via nra care
this, i hope, will be a partial equalizer. the more you have voices out there putting pressure on members of congress, it s all about raising the stakes on members of congress, whether it s money or votes. the more people raise the stakes on their members of congress and make it an issue, if you don t support this, i will not support you, that s what the president is trying to do here. i m just saying, he s won two elections with this grassroots organization. this is a classic case for political scientists of intensity gap. the people on the nra side, the people who call their guns their babies have felt so strongly about this, they are ready to mobilize on a moment s notice out of a fear the black helicopter is coming and obama is going to come into their house with a magnet and collect all their guns and sell them to communists elsewhere. they gain strength. they have 100,000 new members since newtown. they had another surge after the brady bill. they excel in those moments. wh