what s happened over the past two weeks or so is a seat change. the generic has spread from anywhere four to ten of the top 20 competitive districts in the country. why is that? this shutdown may have improved our prospects towards winning the house, but it has damaged the economy. cost the economy $24 billion. people are going to remember this. let me ask you about recruitment. you know, i think i know, that the best candidates tend to win. usually the local mayor, someone a state senator with a good record. a celebrity of some kind. you ve got to better chance than a state rep, someone without a lot of profile. how s it going on recruitment given what s been going on the last several weeks? actually, we ve had a bit of a recruitment surge because people are just sick and tired, they are fed up. and so these are legislators. we have problem solvers. we have people who are entrepreneurs. they know you can t run a business by shutting the business down.
about washington s brand, if you don t think like at dockouts this weekend when they talk about what a mess it is in washington, they re not talking about the crazy republicans. they re also talking about like the fact that barak barobama th can t run a website. the silver lining to this is you have to bottom out before there is real change. how low do we have to go? coming into 2014 the american people are going to speak. i think the tea party and poem are not going to be afraid to be a priority any more. like you talked about yesterday, smart guys and women are going to stand up. this is going to be a seat change. right, right. i don t know where to start. you disagree? a couple things, i ll leave the bag of chips aside. i think they did a really good job the president. it s all a bag of chips. there is nothing wrong with a back of potato chips. it s marketing.
compassionate. professor mccoy, we ve seen a historic drop in the american homicide rate. we are down to levels we have not seen since the 1960s. part of this is because the crack epidemic is waning. part of it is because of innovations in the way we re doing policing. i think that this change gives politicians, gives the attorney general that political space to be able to maneuver away from tough on crime and into smart on crime. you think that s part of what s going on here? oh, definitely, definitely. i think there s a seat change happening here. it s about time. in the 1980s when these draconian mandatory minimum sentences were set into place, no matter what are we may think about the great disparities and there are huge racial and economic disparities here. nevertheless, the fact was the crack cocaine epidemic was associated with high murder rates, open-air drug dealing.
mark mcgwire, he said especially the players don t want any more part of it and i hope this is the end of it and werb i was never part of it. this is not the end of steroids and p.e.d.s in baseball, but might it be a turning point that we are seeing? yeah, it s a seat change in the mcgwire and sossa era, nobody wanted to talk about steroids. now, in club houses around the country, we are seeing players speak out saying we don t want cheaters in our game, and we don t want to be competing against them for jobs and i think that change more than almost any other will shift the way not only the public but younger players coming up see the game and see that they should take the performance enhancing drugs, and there will always be people that want to
going to play out here. there has been a seat change in america over the last several decades around the rights that women have in terms of sexual harassment at home, once upon a time. legally a woman could not be raped by her husband. that has thankfully changed. women have had to face certain things in the workplace. nowadays, sexual harassment lawsuits and sexual harassment law is such that women feel a lot more protected, not completely protected, but more protected because the law is there to outline the things you should not do and cannot do. the sort of comments that were made are not just gross, but they are against the law and people can sue for millions of dollars. yeah, i think that s an important point here. you ve definitely seen a change in federal law. eleanor holmes norton and other female members of congress, i should emphasize because it s female members who put the issue