the democrats have to poison the well for the republicans at the quote local level. let me go back to david, because i see a couple of problems that don t have anything to do with these patterns especially. i m looking at michigan. that s a tough one. i m looking at oregon. that s a tough one. al franken, who has done everything right, three years of living out there, doing his job, keeping his head down, no national interviews, being a great senator, attentive to all the issues, it s not going to be easy in minnesota. it s not going to be easy in michigan. oregon is not going to be easy. eddie markey has to fight for reelection. everybody has to fight for reelection. i don t know who is safe besides your friend durbin there is not many who say yeah, that guy is probably going to get reelected. isn t that the case? isn t that the way you re looking at it, david? i think that s right. i think we should approach it that way. i ve been a little dismayed, and i ve talked about it, th
year of a presidency. it s always a great year to say enough of this guy. let s take those two things. minorities and young people that don t tend to show up every election. they show up in presidential years. so all three, aren t they the cards stacked against the democrats no matter if people do agree with them? they are stacked against the democrats. and the question the democrats and, you know, mr. axelrod has put it very bluntly, a national election versus a local election. when i m voting for my senator, yeah, there are big national issues. but it s still more of a local flare. you know, he is a homegrown guy and all of that. versus the national subjects that everyone is talking about, which is why you see the disparity between the polls saying we re with the democrats on the issues, but i m going to vote for the republican because i like him or he s i know him or there is much more of a connection. so that s what is going to get played out over the next few months. the chall
which voted for romney, strongly republican. secondly, you ve got this sixth year of a presidency. it s always a great year to say enough of this guy. let s take those two things. minorities and young people that don t tend to show up every election. they show up in presidential years. so all three, aren t they the cards stacked against the democrats no matter if people do agree with them? they are stacked against the democrats. and the question the democrats and, you know, mr. axelrod has put it very bluntly, a national election versus a local election. when i m voting for my senator, yeah, there are big national issues. but it s still more of a local flare. you know, he is a homegrown guy and all of that. versus the national subjects that everyone is talking about, which is why you see the disparity between the polls saying we re with the democrats on the issues, but i m going to vote for the republican because i like him or he s i know him or there is much more of a connection.
a chance. john lennon and said give peace a chance. it would have been more appropriate to quote yoko ono because she did the song walking on thin ice. she is no john lennon. the president is talking about let s give peace a chance and then rand came out with a tweet essentially saying he rolled the united states. the quote is our relationship with the world is based upon iranians interest in hash tag geneva interest, world powers surrender to iranian nations will. we win, you lose. and then put a wreath on the grave. here is president obama telling democrats don t you dare put sanctions in place in six months should these talks fall apart you ll poison the well before we can actually drink from it. then iran, on the other
things the government shutdown, back and forth over the stalled judicial nominees, repeated house bills design to repeal obama care. so much. we saw so much bitterness. so much anger and at the end of the day, there is just nothing to hold on to. it is like sand. lz makes a really excellent point that voters voted for divided government in 2010 and that was to throw on the brakes, slam on the brakes after congress they felt overreaching with tactics of obama care. if you want to poison the well, obama care is a big one. huge bill that nancy pelosi then speaker of the house said you have to pass it before you could know what was in it. passed at 11th hour during holidays with procedural vote straight line party vote. and i think that s done a lot to divide republicans and democrats from working together. so let s talk about friday s