those communities. and i ve seen that when we are in those communities, it makes a difference. that s how i became president. those remarks may have some people spitting their lattes out. president but at a party fund-raiser in a posh hotel right here in manhattan last night, clinton defended her campaign s approach and she had an implicit reminder that guess what, she, and this is just a fact, won more votes. it is more important than ever to stand up for the values and visions at the heart of this campaign. if you dig deep enough through all the mud of politics, eventually you hit something hard and true. a foundation of fundamental values that define us as americans. i really believe that and i have over 66 million reasons to be proud. there are, of course, more
productive last four years, or four years she was in the administration. she was outside politics. and that certainly helps your ability to appeal to a nonpartisan or centrist voters who are not on one side or the other. right now her image is kind of above politics. and the other thing she has an advantage is universal name recognition there is no one who doesn t have an opinion of her. and right now she those who do have opinions of her, she is at the highest standing she has ever been, and she is probably at the highest standing she ever will be. as she gets back into the mud of politics, those numbers are inevitably going to down, at least a little bit. yeah, we saw that with ted kennedy. let me ask you about the old jack germond, the old expert used to say these early polls don t mean anything. is that your view? or do you hold there is something of use there in figuring this whole thing out, the polls we re seeing now? i don t want to say that walt disney and jeff bezos was
her. the other group, your thoughts? she has had an incredibly productive last four years, or four years she was in the administration. she was outside politics. and that certainly helps your ability to appeal to a nonpartisan or centrist voters who are not on one side or the other. right now her image is kind of above politics. and the other thing she has an advantage is universal name recognition there is no one who doesn t have an opinion of her. and right now she those who do have opinions of her, she is at the highest standing she has ever been, and she is probably at the highest standing she ever will be. as she gets back into the mud of politics, those numbers are inevitably going to down, at least a little bit. yeah, we saw that with ted kennedy. let me ask you about the old jack germond, the old expert used to say these early polls don t mean anything. is that your view? or do you hold there is something of use there in figuring this whole thing out, the polls we re seei
was killed. he couldn t get his tax cut through. he couldn t get civil rights through. it was really his death and the way johnson exploited that, national speeches after that that kind of allowed it to get through. also johnson knew how to work with the senate. he brought in the finance committee chairman and said, you know, what do you need to get this tax cut through? if i remember, he said something like i need the budget to be under $100 billion. he s like, fine. johnson was a political animal in that sense. we ll make that happen if you give me the tax cut. kennedy was not in that nitty-gritty legislative style. he hadn t been able to make that happen. the mud of politics. the way kennedy framed the issues of the moment, not only his moral stance on civil rights, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country, the peace corps as it is in the 20th