didn t have the votes. and a lot of the democrats were saying they were going to switch. i m thinking, wow. now, when the president called and said, what would it take, i did not say your firstborn. i serialously said, we have to have a serious question about entitlements and more cuts. and i will only be your last vote. there had only been two votes like that in history. impeachment of andrew johnson and the draft. and so that s where i was. and he they ended up there was he came to your district a few months later i told him at the time, you re going to lose this district if i i mean, it was the most republican district represented by a democrat in the country. and it was extraordinary they had to come to me to do this. but i did tell him, i ll only be his last vote. i was surprised that it was a national thing, too. you talk about your district being republican-leaning and a wealthy district, too. we re looking at 1994 mid terms where it was 52 democrats losing
knock on this is it s so far in the future, why are we talking about 2016. yes, she s ahead in the polls. she was ahead last time. i think there s something different going on right now. it is. i think we re losing something in politics because of it. the way you get an idea covered is to fight about it or to run for president and talk about it. i think that s why you saw howard dean, when he was at net roots nation, and i was at net roots nation, there was almost not quite unanimity of acceptance of hill ru but a place that was basically a movement, the online activists that was almost founded to oppose that kind of the pro-iraq war democrats, you know, pretty much acceptance. you saw howard dean not say no when he might run for president. he s not going to run for president but he realized the way to get any issue out of aperture of politics covered is to say you might. by not doing that if you had democrats criticizing obama, going to iowa, on anything, you would have a di
people social safety net programs, the idea of specific government programs test well in a lot of times of stat. the. what is the ground like in new hampshire right now in terms of other democrats you talk to, your know joe biden is going to be coming in for a fund-raiser for maggie hassen, democratic governor of new hampshire. i think you re hosting that fund-raiser. is this something are you alone in sort of saying, hey, i was with obama, now i m with hillary, or are you seeing this in a lot of people you talk to up there? i haven t found one democratic activist who i ve spoken to who hasn t said they re going to be with hillary clinton. it s that strong. i think to marjorie s point, it isn t just the performance she did as secretary of state. and i give credit to the president and to hillary clinton, but her just accepting that position. doing it. is what i think the american people are craving in politics.
remain constant. fewer aggravated assaults, fewer police officers are killed with guns. that s what happens when you pass these laws. people are learning in colorado, a couple hundred already have their background check because they wanted to have a private handgun purchase. they passed their background check, got the gun, the sky failed to fall and life goes on. things are safer in colorado. i think now and in the future people will thank senators morse and herron for being leaders. we re five weeks from this election. something we ll be revisiting between now and then. if you care about gun control, either side, this is the place to be watching these two districts in colorado for the next five weeks. mark glaze, mayors against illegal guns, denver democratic state colorado senate john morse, jennifer kerns from basic freedom defense fund and kurtis lee from the denver post. first perfected 20 years ago.
that s the way mayors deal with this issue. we ll keep you around for another segment. we re going to bring in one of the state senators facing this recall effort and we ll hear from him, john morse. so. [ gasps ]