Our long local nightmare is finally over. Well, almost. And, uh, probably. On Thursday, Sportico and other media outlets reported that private equity billionaire Josh Harris has agreed in principle to buy the Washington Commanders from current owner Dan Snyder for a record $6 billion potentially ending Snyder’s long and mostly ignominious reign over the city’s
you went through a thorough review. you have taken it on the chin. i ve been among those that have been very publicly critical of what gallup was doing over the years. let s start with what you believe is the biggest problem you faced and that happened to be it appears number one on your list is this likely voter screen. i would even broaden that up and say likely voter process. how do we actually figure out who is going to turn out and vote. that s a moving target. that s changing. we re using a model that was developed decades ago. it s probably outdated. probably needs to be changed. and our analysis of where we were, we were three points romney leading among registered voters and model moved it down to our final estimate which was one-point for romney. that was too much. if we had just moved the numbers like the average of other polls, we would have been significantly more toward obama. that feeds to be looked at. we re going to use new jersey
tied or leading in their final survey. outside of rasmussen, a polling firm that has been widely accused of skewing conservative, gallup was the only other organization that predicted a romney victory. as you may recall, the president won by four points. 51-47. gallup s numbers were close on election day. the gap was wider in earlier polls. on october 28th, just a week before the election, gallup had romney up five. week before that, romney up seven. nbc news and wall street journal had the race either tied or obama up. gallup s editor in chief promised a top to bottom review to wording of ballot questions. joining me now, one of the great gentleman of washington. mr. newport, good morning to you. good to be with you.
situation that could develop any week as we saw yesterday with the latest report. andrea mitchell was reporting how this could be a new beginning for netanyahu and obama. how there was more warmth between them or less after chill between them might be a better way of phrasing it. but i wonder to the extent that true, how much do you think that has to do with the simple fact that obama was re-elected last year? so much of the frostiness in the first term seemed to be na netanyahu was basically betting that obama would be a one-term president. betting on romney victory. here is the re-elected more confident and assertive obama making a trip to israel. did that force netanyahu to be more con ciliatory maybe in. at the end of the conference, the prime minister talked about this is second term president and third term prime minister. they are stuck with each other, that s the honest truth. but it is more than that. they are both making a concerted effort to put a few nas ew face
establishment s hostility towards its conservative base. joining us now is jonathan capehart of the washington post and msnbc political analyst the great karen finney. jonathan, given that karl rove spent $300 million of their money and predicted a dead certain romney victory, it s hardly surprising that republicans are not happy about his latest project, is it? no, you re right. it s not surprising that they re not happy, but i would have to say that what karl rove is undertaking and whether he s the right messenger here remains to be seen but the project he s undertaking is vital for the republican party s survival. they want to continue being a national party as opposed to a regional party coming out of the south, then they re going to have to elect candidates to the house, to the senate, and ultimately to the presidency who can win national elections. well, karen, karl rove s