but that upper midwest, that has been a pretty strong that was strong for republicans throughout the obama era at the state and local levels, voters were clearly willing to vote for republicans in those races at that time. why not now? yeah, i mean, well, first of all, i think a come of things have happened, second of all, we know historically when we are in the first term of president, two years in that the party in power whether it d be governor race, house race is going to have problems, you know, we are not going to break history. paul: right. let s be clear of that. second of all, what donald trump has done is also inspired a whole new set of democrat voters that don t normally show up in nonpresidential years, you know, people have a tendency more likely to vote against something than for something and so if you look at the most engaged at this point, what we know is they tend to be very left-leaning, they tend to be more female and they tend to be more younger than
especially at the local levels. there s one interesting thing that happened in the past week, paul, since kavanaugh confirmation last weekend, republicans got an extraordinary amount of over $3 million, most of it were small donations by individuals which suggest there s a lot of energy out there at the individual level which could feed into races like roskam s. paul: health care key concern, both parties to explode the issue, who has the upper hand. there is one issue above any other that is going to define the results in the november 6th election and that is health care. there s little rest for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i m back.
typically we would see in a nonpresidential election and that s because of the president and opposition to the president. in fact, we ve had uptick for republicans because on the republican side there was so much offense to what they saw in kavanaugh hearing that for the first time they are becoming much more engaged and that s why we are seeing some races tightening. paul: this is a question right now at this stage of the race whether republicans enthusiasm can catch up in the wake of the kavanaugh hearings can catch up with democratic enthusiasm. i want to ask you about the economy because trump talked about it in the clip we saw, you know, things are going well, the economy growing at 4% or so after 2% for 8 years. is that breaking through to voters at all or are they saying, well, fine, that s good, let s talk about something else? no, i think this is where you get to messaging problems, for example, the tax cuts are seen as a 50/50 issue with roughly
question is is there nothing that s free of politics anymore, taylor swift is much free speech as anyone else and created a whole lot of bad blood. paul: all right. miss to exxon mobile, donated $1 million to campaign to promote carbon tax as well as bill gates of referendum in washington state. in washington it would start at $15 per ton of carbon, ipcc noted this week that you need carbon $5,500 to even do anything to reduce climate change. [laughter] another redistribution mechanism for predictability of hurricane season, raising rate on first-class to about 55 cents, the idea it s going to make them
others saying you know what, maybe we need to change the supreme court, it s i i as you said, the debate on the democratic left at least among people who are left-leaning publications, should we structure judiciary or get rid of supreme court altogether, the idea that you don t accept the outcome when you lose and you want to restructure american government to suit political ends i don t think it s a mainstream opinion. paul: i think our friends on the left would say, james, that donald trump rude, crude, often times nasty and we are giving it back in kind, you don t want us to play the same game as the president does, we can do that