majority leader eric cantor and i would assume we might hear something within the hour from the white house. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. democratic leader nancy pelosi calls john boehner s bill the bills to nowhere. boy, was she right. boehner didn t have the votes. what will the democratic strategy be now? congressman elijah cummings and john garamendi will be with us. we re coming right back. coming up next on the ed show, i ll ask congressman elijah cummings and john garamendi how the democrats proceed after tonight s disaster for republicans. plus, all the political fallout with steve ben nan and michael tamaski. and we ll hear from eric cantor next np share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the hashtag edshow. we re coming right back. welcome back to the ed show. thanks for joining us tonight. speaker john boehner didn t have the votes for his own plan b this evening. boehner was desperately t
demographic mix particularly with latinos that we were talking about. however, you look at ohio right now, and i think it has more to do with mitt romney underperforming than actually president obama overperforming. actually, it s turned out that ohio is a problematic state for mitt romney even after a very good two weeks that we ve seen after his debate performance. we ll continue to watch and see, but ohio has proved more problematic for mitt romney than president obama. thank you very much. great pleasure having you on today. tomorrow night maybe president obama s last best chance to stop mitt romney s momentum starting to build up to this big debate tomorrow. writing on this the daily beast website, michael said, quote, joe biden did his part, now it s barack obama s turn. if he flubs this like last time, this race is probably over. michael joins us. the mere mention that the race could be over as a result of this debate tomorrow has a lot
put in the exact same policies that created the crisis in the first place. that s the tone that the new president has that is voiced by morgan freeman. it starts with a story line of where this country was when he took office. i believe it said something along the lines no one had faced these kinds of challenges going into the white house. if he doesn t flub and it s a draw, a wash, they both step up to the expectations and have a good debate, what does that mean, michael? a wash leaves us exactly where we are, which is that the larger race is a wash, i would think. i would think that obama needs to do a little bit better than a wash. romney was a very good debater in that first debate. it s true. a lot of stuff about his tax plan and so forth weren t really true, but it s obama s job to point that out. it s not really the media s job. it s obama s job first and foremost to point it out. that s the third thing he has to do tomorrow night.
absentee ballot. earlier today she tweeted she was voting early. she wrote hey @about rackobama. i just dropped my absentee ballot in the mail. i couldn t wait until election day. that s part of what she said. the pressure is on president obama like never before, and tomorrow night could mark his big chance, one of the last perhaps to fight for a second term. the daily beast michael tamaski wrote about it like so many others. plus, what s next or supersonic sky-diving felix baumgartner after his history-making jump over the weekend. did you see it? we have an update about what he s saying today about his life. a huge celebrity tomorrow. check out the news nation tumblr page. you ll find behind the scenes pictures. uit, something this delicious could only come from nature. new nectresse. the 100% natural no-calorie sweetener
all right, michael. it s a pleasure as always. thanks. see you soon. voters in three states, three will decide next month on whether to become the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use. doing so would put colorado, washington state and oregon in direct conflict with federal law. in the meantime former federal officials in washington state are supporting the effort to legalize pot. joining me now is ryan grimm. he s the author of this is your country on drugs. this would put in conflict with federal law. we know that the doj hasn t come out strongly yet and perhaps won t on this. we re in a credible point where you have three states to legalize pot for rec use. they re smarter about this time. in 2010 it was the closest a state came to legalizing marijuana when california went for it. they got hammered by opponents