You can also send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. First i want to see you from as tothe press yesterday pollsters were talking about who has the edge in republicans are trying to will something coming on. Jobresident obamas approval is. 3 in the south. Is too far of a stretch here to political gravity is too much. Thet made me feel like things we need to have happen on election day may be coming to fruition. Enthusiasmeen an gap. Democrats are catching up. With registered voters, which is democratsdemographic, have an edge. Meet the press yesterday. They were talking about who has the edge heading in to tomorrow. Who should control congress . The phone lines are open. The wall street journal has a new poll. This is on the front page. Voters favor the gop by a slim margin for control of congress. Voters favor a republican in congress while 45 favor a democratic congress. In first color is a democrat gainesville. Caller thank you. Host which party should control
Now there is a tiny fraction of americans serving in repeated deployments while the rest are not involved. How does the experience of your Vietnam Service and reflect on the service by this 1 . We are products of our experiences. It affected me. I was there in 1968, the worst year. Home 56,000 dead americans in one year. To fathom that today is unbelievable. Lot, like anyone does when you go through those things. Ways, to do in many this job. Else, it always made and careful of unintended consequences. Of goodreful intentions. Always think through the whole sequence of questions. What happens, wheres it going, what is the end result, and what could go wrong . I wish i was smart enough to have all of the answers, i dont. It has made me cautious. Ok, theno a point is you make decisions. For the next two years i hope we can bring the country back together to Work Together and atress the big issues coming the country that will have longterm consequences for our society for the next generat
Chill filet. And what everyone in washington knows and is afraid to say. Buzz feed john stanton and amy walter, welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. And a good sunday morning to everybody. President obama will be addressing the United Nations on wednesday as the United States continues efforts to build aco arigs to take on isis and iraq and syria. Last week, the house and Senate Approved funding for the socalled moderate Syrian Rebels and there were huge questions that remain over the president s strategy after the countrys most senior general, Martin Dempsey suggested that american troops might be needed on the ground. Its an option that the president continues to rule out. All this adding to a sense of confusion about the administrations approach to defeat isis. Lets rewith wide rewind and what weve seen just over the last few days. These American Forces will not have a combat mission. And if there are threats to
You are absolutely right. Five times since the end of world war ii a party has had the white house for two consecutive terms. President reagans Approval Ratings back in 1988 were very good. Democrats in their infinite wisdom nominated michael dukakis, and the rest is history. For 2016, there are couple of things we dont know. History argues that republicans ought to win the presidency in 2016. But the big question is, will they have repaired their brand . Will they have repaired some their problems with minority voters, young voters, women voters, selfdescribed moderate voters . I would argue that some of those groups just basically stayed home. It will be interesting to watch to see whether latino turnout dropped disproportionally, for example, being upset that immigration hasnt gone through and all that. So if republicans address their brand challenges, it will obviously make a difference. Obviously also whoever the republican nominee will be. On the other hand, what kind of shape is
Candidates for governor but ultimately, if these governors or these candidates whose record is on its the governors or the candidates whose records are on the ballot. There is ample data to indicate that the vast majority of voters across the country are making decisions based on the candidates themselves and not on, you know, on president obama. The most recent poll i have in front of me is the cnn poll from last week that indicated that 54 of those covered in the poll were not trying to send a message to president obama with their vote. Of those who, i would say on top of that, 17 of voters said that they were trying to send a message to president obama in the context of the election, and that was a message of support in the election. I think thats an indication that the vast majority of voters are making a decision on election day based on the merits associated with the candidates at the top of the ballot and weve seen in a number of ways that the president has sought to boost the p