away of 14 days of early vote was the biggest political mistake. miami shortening the hours in the last weekend. and the fellow in pennsylvania declaring when the voter i.d. bill is up this is going to went for mitt romney. and i think there was a diminution but it wasn t what people thought. also complete, you know, the disavowel of minority voters assumption on the part of the romney campaign they weren t going to show up to the polls in the same way angry white voters were. i don t think anyone on our side, the republican side understood or competent mended how good their turnout would be. democrats do voter registration like a business and republicans leave it to the blue hairs. sasha? republicans don t fundamentally understand what mobilization is. what democrats understd because they ve worked with behavioral psychologists to run experiments to get to underlying ideas of getting somebody to do something they re not used to do, you need
to sort of change the psychological and social dynamic around voting. republicans send people direct mail about issues, about the candidates, about the stakes of the election, they send voter guides. they don t understand the persuasion and mobilization are two different modes of interacting with people. this is a major conceptual gap between the two parties that stands between them, even being sensible about investing resources. sasha, i would love to see how that motivational work does in offyear elections. remember it s the presidential election that gets our voters out. we try desperately in 2010, we failed to motivate. we ll have another shot at 2014. i think we can take back the house if there are on instructionists but motivational tactics don t work. we need you knocking on more doors. me? yeah. i mean, listen, talk about persuasi persuasion. we ve got to leave it there. thank you to sasha isenberg author of the victory lab a mus
call both mr. boehner and the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell but was told they were asleep. wake them up, for goodness sake. he is the president. wake him up. yesterday, yesterday, senate majority leader harry reid struck a tone of cautious optimism. it s better to dance than to fight. it s bettor work together. i want to work together but i want everyone to also understand, you can t push us around. hours later there was some reason for hope. the word revenue which speaker boehner used 15 times in a 12-minute press conference and not always in a completely negative context. the news via tax reform. we re willing to accept new revenue under the right conditions. republicans have signaled a willingness to accept new revenue. if it comes from growth and reform. has boehner opened the door to compromise and extended an actual olive branch. he alluded to the grand bargain that slipped away a year ago. closer to the critical mass needed legislatively
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