other way through a little jingling here, a little jiggling. also, just how desperate is the republican party? if they can t win playing by the rules, it seems, as we see here, that they decide they can change the rule. ed rendell is the former governor of pennsylvania and michael crowley is with time magazine. it looks like they re looking at states like pennsylvania that has traditionally been a democratic presidential state. explain the game they might be playing or up to at least. well, it s very simple. barack obama carried the state in the last election by 5.5 points. but the way the vote came in for obama, it was concentrated in philadelphia and pittsburgh, two big areas that had significant democratic representation. if you did it district congressional district alone, out of the 19 congressional districts, governor romney would have carried 13, president obama only 6, and if you gave the two bonus electoral votes to the president, it would have been
be looking at. in other words, if the state votes democrat for president and is controlled by a republican governor and state legislature, maybe you can swing it back the other way through a little jingling here, a little jiggling. also just how desperate is the republican party if they can t win playing by the rules it seems as we see here that they decide they can change the rule. ed rendell is the former governor of pennsylvania and michael crowley is with time magazine. it looks like they re looking at states like pennsylvania that has traditionally been a democratic presidential state. explain the game they might be playing or up to at least. well, it s very simple. barack obama carried the state in the last election by 5.5 points. but the way the vote came in for obama, it was concentrated in philadelphia and pittsburgh, two big areas that had significant democratic representation. if you did it district congressional district alone, out of the 19 congressional
district, and, look, the country may be wanting more control, or some action to make guns safer, but it s different by district. in inner cities whether you re a democrat or republican gun control is much more popular. you get out in the more rural states, more rural areas and there are democrats who hold some of those seats, you know, 60% or more own guns, are strong second amendment rights advocates and don t want anybody to impinge on the right to bear arms. so you re going to see it district by district. i think almost beyond party, it s going to be more where is that member of congress situated, what kind of district he is in, not what party they are in. jon: national journal is out with a piece called the thrill is gone. here is one of the lines in it i wanted to get you to react to. it said even many republicans were swept up in the optimism
costco or bj s. democrats make a play to tame the filibuster power in the senate. we ll see how that goes. how is that sit with republicans? we ll ask senator lamar alexander. first, our washington speak today. state work period. otherwise known as a senate recess. now this is a close cowsin to one of our favorites on the house side they call it district work period. the senate will be sworn in today but then they ll get out of town pretty soon. this monday for two more weeks of recess or state work period. sure. they ll be back january 24th. what i love is they are not actually technically recessing. i think they aren t fully adjourning. they ll keep it open for some long period of time. it s one long workday in the united states senate on this side of things. that enables them to try to get this filibuster reform done. we ll get into all of that with senator alexander coming up. if you have some washington speak you d like to clarify. i d like to call this first day in
nancy pelosi with i m with you. sean: job number two, fire reid and job number three, make obama a one-term president. there you go. you got to do it district by district. people need to stay involved in the fight. talk to neighbors, friends, get on facebook. all these things go in our favor. if you do it issue by issue, principle by principle we win big. sean: that s the interesting part. there s a poll that came out today. i think is interesting. this is a gallup poll. it shows the american people think by a 10 point margin that obama care will hurt the overall i m sorry will hurt the economy by 10 points. hurt the overall quality of health care 55-29 and it will increase the federal deficit 61-23. we won the debate, but they ended up cheating and getting the votes. for now. sean: for you now. none of this goes into