that s how bad the fiscal situation is. and yet he s up there not saying a word. by the way, i looked at reagan s 1981 speech, which i helped draft. there s three pages of line item programs that he named by name that he was going to cut and why. listen to what you heard last night. it was just more for this, more for that. let me show you something else. i want to talk about manufacturing because he won, in my opinion, on the basis of some promises to bring back jobs that no one else has been able to bring back. we have not manufactured less in america. i ve got back 30 years to dig up these numbers. in 30 years we lost 5.2 million manufacturing jobs. this is before nafta, by the way. look at manufacturing output. it s almost double. it s up 85%. we don t have a manufacturing crisis in america. we re manufacturing lots. we re just not using more workers to do it. i don t agree with that completely. i think he was right in the campaign when he talked about the rust belt, the hallow
92 through last year the republican electoral vote average fell to 211. democrats zoomed up to 327. here s another way to look at the shift in that same period. in the earlier presidential six elections, four states, vermont, new jersey, illinois, and california voted republican every time, in the last six they voted democratic every time. the states account for 92 electoral votes. i m amazed vermont once was republican. i keep thinking of ben & jerry s and bernie sanders. it s no accident to me, chris, this began to shift with bill clinton. bill clinton very much made it his mission to move the democratic party, quote, to the middle. you know, that was the democratic leadership council. they re not going to give up on the south. even today bill clinton is obsessed with this notion of the sorting out of america. he s always referring to bill bishop s book. when i saw clinton the other week, he mentioned it to me. meaning the country is disaggregating.
republican electoral vote average fell to 211. democrats zoomed up to 327. here s another way to look at the shift in that same period. in the earlier presidential six elections, four states, vermont, new jersey, illinois, and california voted republican every time, in the last six they voted democratic every time. the states account for 92 electoral votes. i m amazed vermont once was republican. i keep thinking of ben & jerry s and bernie sanders. it s no accident to me, chris, this began to shift with bill clinton. bill clinton very much made it his mission to move the democratic party, quote, to the middle. you know, that was the democratic leadership council. they re not going to give up on the south. even today bill clinton is obsessed with this notion of the sorting out of america. he s always referring to bill bishop s book. when i saw clinton the other week, he mentioned it to me. meaning the country is disaggregating. if bill clinton stood for
republican electoral vote average fell to 211. democrats zoomed up to 327. here s another way to look at the shift in that same period. in the earlier presidential six elections, four states, vermont, new jersey, illinois, and california voted republican every time, in the last six they voted democratic every time. the states account for 92 electoral votes. i m amazed vermont once was republican. i keep thinking of ben & jerry s and bernie sanders. it s no accident to me, chris, this began to shift with bill clinton. bill clinton very much made it his mission to move the democratic party, quote, to the middle. you know, that was the democratic leadership council. they re not going to give up on the south. even today bill clinton is obsessed with this notion of the sorting out of america. he s always referring to bill bishop s book. when i saw clinton the other week, he mentioned it to me. meaning the country is disaggregating. if bill clinton stood for anything, it was to try to end
tined places now. it is not going to mexico, it is confined aircraft where when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. stand up, let me see you. three letter word, jobs. j-o-b-s, jobs. hillary clinton is more qualified than i am to be president of out of america. let s get that straight. she is a truly close pernt friend. she is kwulfide to be president of the united states of america. she is easily qualified to be vice president of the united states of america. and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. well, as cory booker taught us this week, say what you think, just not popular in american politics. whether it is right or wrong. simply offering your actual point of view, dangerous territory. but we can always count on one man to give it to us straight, whether he meant to or not. and that is joe biden. we still count on him for just that service, in fact.