that follows the minimum wage, gun control measures, signing the dream act giving tuition to undocume undocumented immigrants. in some ways he s enacted the agenda that president obama has not been fully enable to enact in washington. polls show he would start way back at the back of the pack. is there room for him to grow and about to put an end to the talk of hillary clinton getting the nomination without opposition? we have strategist williams with us and also sam stein who wrote the article, got the big news this week. sam, tell us about this week. it s been no secret to people who follow politics that martin o mally is interested in running for president. there was indications last year saying if hillary clinton runs i m not going to do it. it seems he s changing his tune. that s what struck me as well. i put the question to him.
if you yourself are convinced you want to run for president, would it matter if anyone else was in the race? he said it wouldn t. which means, by extension, if hillary clinton were running and he thought he could run and make a good candidate, he would do it. all indications are he believes this. he s touring the country and talking to different democratic parties and appearing in different states trying to figure out if the infrastructure is there. mainly if the money is there. you don t want to jump in against a fundraising operation with var little to show for it. like you mentioned, he does have a record to run. he has a good domestic record th th that hillary clinton did you want have. i wonder, i ll give my take on martin. i saw him at the 2012 convention. he spoke and he and a few others biden comes to mind, this was a
chance to audition for 2016. his speech didn t go over well. it left me thinking, maybe a totally unfatherly, my take is he s the tim pawlenty of the democratic party. am i being too hard? a very nice guy with a great resume for republicans and he just never generated excitement. i look at martin o mally. maybe he should have started at the democratic convention with being the head of a rock band like he actually is. and so maybe maybe a charisma would have shown off. he can take the next couple years and build on the record as he s going across the country talking about his legislative record and what he was able to do as governor. as you go across the country and talk to people, state parties, you re at the jefferson dinner,
ago he toyed with the idea of running. when it comes to the democrats in 2016, you don t hear a lot of names mentioned. the conversation isn t really about who might run, it s more about whether anyone will actually run against hillary clinton. this week brought something of a surprise answer to that question with someone else, martin o mally, the governor of maryland, thrusting himself into the mix. he told the huffington post what it would take him to enter the race. it wouldn t take much. i don t think it s a matter of my convincing as it is a matter of my preparing. he also told the washington post he s moving forward with preparations and won t wait for clinton to decide whether she s running. this past weekend he was in wisconsin blasting paul ryan and scott walker at a state party event in milwaukee. next month he will be speaking to democrats in nevada touting a rourd that he believes is in sync with the base of the democratic party. on monday he signed a bill decriminali
it s hard to see who that would be. maybe you got the governor of california. maybe he would get out there and run hard. maybe martin o mally. he didn t do too well at the dnc. he is not a figure of people it s hard to see how she moves over or somebody gets to the left of her. can she hold the obama coalition? but also peel off some of the blue collar white voters who clinton was so adept at getting. never one north carolina. certainly that would be on their list of want to win states should she win. but it s hard to see that somebody was going to get in this race.