underscoring and john has too, american people want diversity of voices, opinions, fresh faces and new ideas. they re not looking for warmed-over establishment rhetoric policies or politics which is why joe biden s candidacy is less than it might appear. half if not more of republican primary electorate wants somebody other than those currently in office. this is a seat change in america s politics. i ve got to wrap this. sorry. got to wrap the segment. more lawmakers are taking sides on iran nuclear deal as president obama promises to veto republican resolutions against it should it fail in congress. which side
underscoring and john has too, american people want diversity of voices, opinions, fresh faces and new ideas. they re not looking for warmed-over establishment rhetoric policies or politics which is why joe biden s candidacy is less than it might appear. half if not more of republican primary electorate wants somebody other than those currently in office. this is a seat change in america s politics. i ve got to wrap this. sorry. got to wrap the segment. more lawmakers are taking sides on iran nuclear deal as president obama promises to veto republican resolutions against it should it fail in congress. which side has the numbers? fox political insiders are coming right back. three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car?
solidifying, iowa was in january. this year, it s february, 2016. you can hit a pivot point. this is silly season. they start to solidify it come fall. that s when perceptions harden. the people that gave mccain a run for his money. romney give him a run for his money and huckabee, 2%. he won a number of states. on the democratic side, we know this was happening here. obama was at 21%, hillary clinton was taking the lead. do you think hillary has learned from this about having such a commanding lead? every hillary staffer and donor hopes to god she has. that obviously didn t work out. barack obama was a strong second place here catapulted ahead. he was running on inevidentibility. that is a seat change in the way the democratic party ran things before. hillary clinton trying to desperately avoid the mistakes. we have the benefit of
similarmy, ceo of fair compare.com. rick, i can remember years ago you get on a plane frequently plenty of empty seats. you are lucky you could stretch out, get three coach seats together. every plane i get on is full every seat taken. what changed? well there s a huge seat change. before prior to the great recession, sort of the precursor of the fuel crisis that occurred right before the great recession, you had a group of executives for two decades that basically had a grow or die strategy. part of that was steal market share, add more routes and basically you had aircraft that had a third empty seats on them until this time. now it is the fuel crisis the recession hits you have a whole crop of new executives that come in. they are basically survive, contract consolidate, don t add. cut unprofitable routes.
in. they are basically survive, contract, consolidate, don t add. cut unprofitable routes. we have to keep our aircraft 90% full which is effectively completely full. that s a huge seat change. now the economy is better and fuel prices are low, they do not want to go back to that old era of adding a bunch of seats. they don t have to anymore. there s plenty of demand out there right now and there s no sense for them to add capacity to their system if they don t need to. right now they are having record profits. professor ryerson, where s the line here? here are the airlines doing what as a business they should be doing trying to figure out how to fill as many seats as possible, which is to say how to figure out how to fly as few empty seats as possible. that is managing the supply on their aircraft. the government saying somewhere in that process they are doing something that is in effect a violation of antitrust, possibly