possibly actually digested the adam schiff report from yesterday or the republican response in any real way. we can be their ret cal all we want. but the american people is going to look at this and say, huh? what are we doing? because there is no fact witnesses planned for this hearing. that s an interesting thing. next week an ambiguous hearing on the presentation of the other committee that sent us the report and judiciary committee which i m not sure what they want us to present on and nothing else. no plan. i asked the chairman before we left for thanksgiving, to stay in touch, let s talk about what we have, history will shine a bright light on us, starting this morning. crickets. until i asked for a witness the other day and let s saw say that didn t go well. there was no whistleblower. by the way it was proved that he is not or she is not afforded the protection of identity. it s not in the statute. it s something that was discussed by adam schiff. we also don t have adam schiff
big question, waiting a month and a half from the obama administration and kathleen sebelius, how do they define even rolled. they are defining people who have paid and people who put a plan into your shopping cart like you would do on amazon and maybe not pay for it. bill: what happens to the law if these numbers stay where they are? what s the effect of that? we heard healthcare experts and people who helped write the saw say if a number of people don t sign up insurance premiums will be high within obamacare which means even more people won t show up. you have lots of republicans and conservatives who have been sake it s not going to work. you have democrats meeting with the president very concerned about reelection. then you have them saying maybe if we had known the website was going to crash we would have
asking itself what went wrong and how they fix it. john brabender is a republican strategist and top adviser to rick santorum, and robert shrum, democratic strategist and columnist for the daily beast. john, you re on the inside. you know something about this. do you understand how somebody would think that the electorate that s going to participate in 2012, in a general election with barack obama, an african-american, a democrat, and a relatively popular president, would create a different electorate than the one you saw say in 2010 or in a primary situation? well, i think as you know, every poll starts with an assumption. here is who we think is going to show up and vote. therefore, that s who we ask the question of. republicans, and not just the romney campaign but republican pollsters all across the country, guessed wrong. we didn t see the intensity that
and how they fix it. john brabender is a republican strategist and top adviser to rick santorum, and robert shrum, democratic strategist and columnist for the daily beast. john, you re on the inside. you know something about this. do you understand how somebody would think that the electorate that s going to participate in 2012, in a general election with barack obama, an african-american, a democrat, and a relatively popular president, would create a different electorate than the one you saw say in 2010 or in a primary situation? well, i think as you know, every poll starts with an assumption. here is who we think is going to show up and vote. therefore, that s who we ask the question of. republicans, and not just the romney campaign but republican pollsters all across the
points in the polling just as romney gained 4 tying up the race. in new hampshire, obama lost 4 while romney gained 3. giving him a decisive lead. the magazine quotes a romney aide on election night talking to romney s son tagg as the results were coming in. he looked like he was in a complete state of shock, as if these numbers cannot be real. to make matters worse, their polling told them florida and virginia, two states that romney lost, were in the bag. the republican party is left asking itself what went wrong and how they fix it. john brabender is a republican strategist and top adviser to rick santorum, and robert shrum, democratic strategist and columnist for the daily beast. john, you re on the inside. you know something about this. do you understand how somebody would think that the electorate that s going to participate in 2012, in a general election with barack obama, an african-american, a democrat, and a relatively popular president, would create a different electorate th