we ll map out how the major fights over emotional issues like abortion and immigration this year are in the states and we ll debate colorado s proposal to copy the arizona immigration law. we begin, though with the state of the union. tomorrow night s speech tis the president s chance to speak. new polling show the president will speak from a position of strength. 55% of americans approve of how he is handling his job. that s a surprising robust number given the shellacking the president observed just a month and a half ago. we know the atmospherics will be more civil as many republicans and democrats sit together as a sign of post-tucson civility. but we all know the differences over policy are deep, with sparks already flying over president obama s new spending. here to set the stakes for the president s big night, james carville, erick erickson, and john avalon. mr. carville, i want to start with you, because, a, you re a democrat, and b, you ve worked closely with presi
democratic national chair. it s good to talk to you today. thanks, contessa. good to be back. what do you think, tim, that the president needs to say tonight? i think, contessa, you re going to see him focus significantly on the economy. he has done yomans work working with so many to turn a shrinking economy into a growing one. joble lesosses to job gains. now the challenge is let s put growth into overdrive and i think the president will talk about that significantly this ev evening. when we re looking at the debt limit, we re hearing republicans pounding this line over and over again. we re spending too much money. we recently heard nancy pelosi pick up that line. what does the president need to say about the deficit and debt limit? i think what he will talk about is the fact we do need to scroll the size of the federal base budget. i heard him say this on the campaign often. then when he came into office, economists left, right and center all said the most impor
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resources that we have and hopefully we ll be able to start doing the commercials and the radio and that sort of thing. but it s been a grassroots campaign so far and, again, speaking to everyday, ordinary chicagoans with our message, that i want to fix the city for every family and every neighborhood. yesterday, if we were having this conversation, we would say, it does not appear that she has a prayer. on this day, is she the front-runner? well, there s it sha not is of the money, that s going to be a big factor. carol moseley braun has a big name recognition in chicago. that gave her a running start, but she just did not raise a lot of money, john. rahm is 10.5 million, jerry chico, 2.5 million. and he s the board of education president. former board. and lots of jobs in city
in just one week, january 31st. emanuel s attorneys acknowledge this is an uphill fight. this is a state supreme court that rarely overturns appeals court decisions, and tamron, of course, illinois politics, everything s interconnected. one of the supreme court justices is ann burke, the wife of al derman edward burke who has endorsed one of emanuel s opponents, jerry chico, emanuel s attorneys say they will not ask her to recuse herself. so those is going to be fast and furious for the rest of the week to see what happens. we ll see what happens next, john. coming up, painfully cold temperatures over much of the country. another snowstorm is headed for the northeast. plus, promises kept, promises broken. we ll take a look at what president obama achieved since his first state of the union