that s the flip side that i think is just a question of your theory of democracy, how much time should we have to vote, because in that case and others the lack of media attention on a lot of local races you could tell this better than i can means that sometimes these things don t really get flusheded out until the last couple of weeks. i have one more football metaphor when we come back. in football, they call it a reverse. when it comes to mitt romney on health care, we may need a whole new play. that s next. we re sitting on a bunch of shale gas. there s natural gas under my town. it s a game changer. it means cleaner, cheaper american-made energy. but we ve got to be careful how we get it. design the wells to be safe. thousands of jobs. use the most advanced technology to protect our water. billions in the economy. at chevron, if we can t do it right, we won t do it at all.
rassment. i love the name a lot are using, the pure ballot bullies. we are fighting the same fights that were fought in the 50s or 60s whether it is poll taxes or literacy tests, rather than people from the klan showing up so black people would be afraid to vote. we are seeing the same thing in wisconsin where the government had to put out a new brochure informing voters of their rights saying we north going to stand for the same intimidation we saw in the scott walker recall election. a lot of that came from complaints from people that were trained by true the vote to go out and, quote, unquote, observe voters as they went to the polls. it is not even clear to me that it is illegal to intimidate voters. people have very well organized intimidation tactics. we have seen in wisconsin flyers
heritage in a country built on slavery, a lot of the enthusiasm is driven by fear of paul ryan, fear of mitt romney and fear of what the republican party has become in the last four years. i have to disagree with that. i hear that a lot. i don t think the numbers bear that out. when you look at democratic support for this president, it is at 89%. the only other president in the last 40 years to obtain that kind of support was ronald reagan within his own party. barack obama is more popular within the party and the base right now at this point in the election than bill clinton was, than jimmy carter was with his party and bush sr. was with his party. energy is hard to measure. the measurements we have show a reaganesque party unity. matt has this great piece in the rolling stone where he says the presidential race never,
let me add, not only is integration no longer on the table, the policy agenda, which is remarkable when you consider the journey we have gone through since the brown decision, but head start and access to quality preschool is not even on the agenda. here is what we know. we don t have an achievement gap. we have a preparation gap. kids are coming into kindergarten well behind because they haven t had access to quality early childhood education. then, we shame them. we shame them and their parents. it is a sound policy investment. we have a lot of evidence to show this. to invest in the early childhood education of children, because it will benefit them not only in kindergarten but throughout their education. that s what made the chicago teachers so important. if you look at what they won, it wasn t just about salary. they won more money for those kind of programs, 600 more art teachers and physical education teachers and teachers unions that are so derided as part of the probl
zirin. the heidi game reminds us it is not over until it is over. despite these great polls, what are we looking at in the next month? i thought you were going to go with samuel jackson, i want the snakes off the plane and i would like the superpacs being the snakes. we could do a lot of samuel l. jackson. i will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who will attempt to destroy my brothers. a lot of you know my name is the lord when i lay my vengeance upon thee. that should be obama s slogan for the first debates. they don t know the second hour of nhp is a drinking game. congresswoman, i m almost sad i put you at this table. really, i m not ready to pop open the champagne cork for president obama, because, you know, the republicans have what