President ial library and museum. Im so excited for you to be here today. We are commemorating the refugee act of 1980 signed by president carter in march that year. On behalf of president carter, who was unable to be here, i just want to welcome you first, welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and a few feet away is the Carter Center which is an ngo. Together president carter looks at us as the center. We provide him with data, research, camaraderie, advice and we work really, really hard for him as well. The refugee act is an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act and the migration of the refugee assistant act. The goal was to provide permanent and consistent admission to people who were suffering in other nations and to provide asylum. That was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting to be here today too. We are par
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senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you re no jack kennedy. part of why the stakes feel so high tonight is that incumbent presidents almost always lose to the candidate challenging them in their first debate. the exception to that is bill clinton beating dole in their first debate in 96. other than that every time the first debate has been a killer for the incokucumbent president. president carter lost to ronald reagan, president reagan lost his first debate to robert mondale. president bush lost his first debate to bill clinton and ross perot. next president bush lost his first debate to john kerry. so when president obama lost his first debate last week to his challenger, mitt romney, that outcome was totally in keeping with the sad, sad incumbent president tradition of getting creamed in their first debate. but what hat means for tonight
the poll numbers for romney and ryan soaring after the first presidential debate. democrats openly counting on joe biden tonight to stop that republican momentum. osama bin laden is dead and general motors is arrive. the 2012 vice presidential debate starts right now. happy debate night, everybody. the best television series of 2011 was the republican primary debates. there were 1 million of them. they played to huge audiences week after week and never disappointed. now it is october 2012 and the most compelling thing on television anywhere in the country is once again the debates. only now there are only two candidates at a time and the stakes are way higher. i m rachel maddow. here on our msnbc headquarters in new york. i m joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, steve schmidt. lawrence o donnell is our man in the spin room tonight. the one and only chris matthews is at centre college in danville, kentucky, the site of tonight s debate. chris, is th
presidential debate. democrats openly counting on joe biden tonight to stop that republican momentum. osama bin laden is dead and general motors is arrive. the 2012 vice presidential debate starts right now. happy debate night, everybody. the best television series of 2011 was the republican primary debates. there were 1 million of them. they played to huge audiences week after week and never disappointed. now it is october 2012 and the most compelling thing on television anywhere in the country is once again the debates. only now there are only two candidates at a time and the stakes are way higher. i m rachel maddow. here on our msnbc headquarters in new york. i m joined by ed schultz, reverend al sharpton, chris hayes, steve schmidt. lawrence o donnell is our man in the spin room tonight. the one and only chris matthews is at centre college in danville, kentucky, the site of tonight s debate. chris, is this unusually high stakes for a vice presidential debate? well
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