And gender and sexual politics are kind of in this larger context. I think it does. One of the things that is interesting about the president , coming out the freedom to marry or what seemed like the Vice President accidentally coming out in a way. [laughter] but whats really to your point, while these things are very important and i think that they have a clear role in places like maryland where the marriage referendums on the ballot. The timing was the backlash about what i care about. And that happened early to get the, you know, what is going to happen when my oneman or support of lgt whites come out, how will this impact the election . There was an early test and we got a chance to get those issues out of the way so that they were not the things we were talking about. It was almost as though the last election was one in which barack obama and his very embodiment challenged about blacks and every time he referred to the single mother, they would blink and say oh, its not a black si
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Thank you, suzanne. Im Victor Blackwell in for Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for being with us today. The president is pulling the plug on his trip to hawaii to tend to urgent matters in washington. With tax hikes looming in less than a week, hes scheduled to return to the white house tomorrow, just as a Deadlocked Congress reconvenes days ahead of the socalled fiscal cliff. Youre just six days from feeling this. Now, first hit is coming on january 1st when your take home pay will drop by 2 because of a scheduled hike in the Social Security payroll tax. Thats just the start. Income taxes are set to climb too. And youll notice that when employer gets to around the adjusted withholding, the Government Spending cuts, those are also scheduled for january 1st and bound to slow the economy and some argue theyll weaken the military. Congress has seen this coming, but an effort to limit the damage failed last week. Republican House Speaker john boehner could not persuade enough members of his part
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Deserves a raise. The polls suggest look have that will not work. The republicans look very likely to take control of the senate. Today what does that mean for you and your money . Varney and company is about to begin. All right, welcome back, good to see you. Lets get to the big story with special report host bret baier joins us from washington d. C. Is my premise correct . Is the president pivoting to the economy as his best issue . He has pivoted to the economy numerous times over the past couple years and he desperately wants to turn the page on what has been a tough couple of weeks, months on the Foreign Policy front and also frankly domestically, has not seen his poll numbers hold up. That is particularly troubling for a lot of senate races, Democratic Senators trying to hold onto their seats and red bean states so he is doing that and that speech monday in milwaukee in front of labor groups was aimed to do just that. It is interesting a couple things, labor has had some push bac