decimat decimated. i want to be clear about one thing here. i m so sorry. the argument about whether this is a good or bad thing is a separate thing. this just is. i m just trying to lay out the case for what is. this is the situation. this is the situation that republicans have seized upon. they did it because they could the last few years. this is the situation that democrats face right now. and it will be very interesting to see. we talked about the red state democrats. i m very curious to see where the energy in the democratic party will go and how they will play on this issue. david chalian, maybe you have heard it, the next several months. the first thing out of the gate from every democrat is this should happen after the election. that seems like a futile argument. i don t understand. but that s their initial organizing point. they will make other ideological points to play clips of jeffrey toobin describing what may happen and trying to create
care act. i want to go back to this organizing point. the town hall meetings that happened that july 2009 on the affordable care act, the polling for health care reform was at 60%. right. and literally, the polls drops precipitously during that three-month period, down as a result of that. because public opinion was not a firm thing on the affordable care act, you know what i mean. people were firm about they should have that and the government should do something about that. i think the final concept we have not really addressed here today is not just public opinion as a linear kind of phenomenon, but the intensity of public opinion. yes. we all know the stories about gun control. 90% of americans, even like 85% of nra members who want certain gun safety measures like trigger locks or what have you. but the intensity, until there s
about the incumbent, democrat or republican. if people aren t satisfied they look for an alternative. in this election, people aren t happy with the democrats. they are looking for an alternative. if there s a third ballot to go to, this is the strategy of harry reid in nevada, they have been talking about this for months and months. so, anytime you get a group like this and there s no organized leadership here, unlike the perot movement, anything can happen. there s no guarantee they won t be mad at republicans. there s six months to go until elections. they can turn on republicans as quickly as they can. they don t like what s going on in washington, d.c. and they are going to do something about it. the organizing point is critical. at the end of the day, you have to have a centralized movement. you can t have all these parties and people calling themselves