11.2-3-million and walmart ceo michael duke 23.7 million. can they not afford to pay their workers? it s not just about the ceo, talk about ceo pay but then there s executive and vice presidents and directors and all sorts of other folks. the fact is that these corporations pay a handful of people a huge amount of money and yet they contribute to a direction that our economy is going that s very, very dangerous. since the great recession two-thirds of the jobs that have been created have been below $14 an hour. what that means is that we are we are creating jobs and we re talking about, you know, coming back with the creation of jobs. sure. but what we re really doing is creating jobs that can t pull a working family above the poverty level, and this is a real challenge. it s why the unions have stepped in and they are so wise to do so because at the end of the day
states. what it speaks to is it s not just trying to sort of isolate the minority vote. it speaks to how the emerging democratic coalition. that s african-american, hispanic, also single women, that s young professional, that coalition more than ever is tightly bunched in metropolitan areas, cities and directly around cities there is a statistic that is floating around, i think dave wasserman from the cook report came up with this. if you look back at 1998 when michael duke contact cass got slaughtered by george bush sr., michael dukakis carried over 800 counties. that s how tightly packed in today s democratic coalition is. it s enough to win the popular vote by five million votes nationally, but it s not spread out. you get state after state, blue state after blue state, if you went to this congressional based system, romney would have won the election nast november.
0 it was a great day, a day when we were all reminded just how much the country was changed. i was personally moved at that poemt and the president falls before the bust. and remember this. it was only 30 years ago senator jesse helms led the fight from being a dabd cat. blank black. and when i asked president reagan refused to criticize. we ll know in about 35 years, woent we. i don t fault his sincerity with regards to wanting the records opened up. i was a young activist cries from hell. peggy noonan says the grand old party is doomed if it keeps knocking hillary and refusing to recognize that, excuse me for disrupting your illusion, president obama is the president, and republicans in the house that once could still see through the dark know they really can t go on like this. margaret is not alone. down in baton rouge governor bobby jindal says we have to stop being the stupid party. haley barbour warns this party to stop making stupid comments again, that word about rape. but
surprise of some kind tonight. they re probably planning something to startle the audience or catch them off-guard or catch the opponent off-guard. the pitfalls are always the same. george bush 41 on stage with ross perot and bill clinton. our director said take a close up of george bush 41. he looked at his watch right then. that s a moment. al gore stepping in to george bush 43 s space in the debate and giving a wonky commentary about job creation that i remember. there are a lot of pitfalls. it s mostly about demeanor than answers. one of the startling moments in the debate was when michael duke ki do you kak kiss was running. bernie shaw in an entirely question, you re opposed to the death penalty. if your wife was raped and
right now mitt romney is here on the hofstra campus for his walk-through. the president has done his and is finishing debate prep. for now hofstra university still belongs to the students, and they are excited. i talked to a few on campus, and i asked what they wanted to hear from the candidates tonight. one female obama supporter, who is eligible to vote in this presidential election for the first time, is a music education major. she wants to hear the president talk about arts education. she wanted to hear more on social issues like gay marriage and abortion. another obama supporter simply said, more passion, please. as for romney, spoke to a group of students representing jews for romney, and students for romney, and they wanted to hear about libya, and the economy and the failure to lower the debt and thoeped for a denver repeat. one student said more of the same. from more passion please to more of the same, thesee at hofstra they replaced me with the at the fable in 30