but they re focusing on smaller, local issues. what s the strategy and what are they? yeah, mika, we ve talked here on morning joe about how you can look at the obama campaign as a series of senate races in just a couple states, florida, colorado, virginia. and they re doing this with issues, at the same time worrying about economy, jobs, and health care and going after issues that affect the economies there and can move voters. down in florida you have big fish are big trouble. they ve banned the import of the burmese python and other dangerous fish that s an issue that has people there excited and around the great lakes where you have all those electorally sensitive states, pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio, michigan, they have a carp czar who is working on invasive species there. carp czar. carp czar.
lose leverage with house republicans. they think if they have to have the fiscal cliff they have to have disaster to get a deal in the lame-duck session. expect republicans to be talking about barack obama costing another 123,000 jobs. et cetera. you can finish the sentence, finish the press conference. coming up next thank you. the thanks a lot, mike. coming up next, hated to see it happen but maybe it was time. right? the red sox trade away one of the last remaining members of the fabled 2004 world series championship team of idiots. self-described idiots. and yes, they acted like idiots. but we got the ring. will it be good for the team? who it is in sports, straight ahead. also the morning papers from today. mika and i will be back with morning joe brewed by starbucks. with the spark cash card from capital one,
leader and if we don t have a biden or clinton running in 2016 he is well positioned as anybody else to run. hillary is running, come on. rattner, hillary is running, isn t she? your friends with hillary and the family. she s running? i hope she does. i hope she does. i think she s incredibly talented and think she has a lot more to give. what did you and all your friends in the european enclave have to say? do they want her to run? they look her too. i have to bring this up. come on, give me a full page here. we have to my left, richard haass, new york yankees fan, to my right, steve rattner, he s been suffering with the mets for a long time. it was a heck of a series, guys. a heck of a series. at the end of the day, though, your mets and your yankees it. two out three, yankees won the series, sa bath thee ya beat dicky. we sort of won.