And look to elections for Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Can the democrats do enough targeted messages from the president , Vice President , clintons and others to remake the electorate in some of the rails where voters dont usually vote younger, africanamerican, asias, hispanics, women turn out to vote in a midterm, thats hard to do. On the republican side, the strategists will tell you they dont think they can live up to running against the other party unless they can appeal to social issues. Social issues not in their favor in most cases. Foreign policy, a lot is going on, but a lot of republican strategists arent saying well win it on Foreign Policy. Six months ago, no doubt people thought republicans were in place to reclaim the senate. The story has changed in these sick months. We do not have a Midterm Election thats looks like the previous two. In 2010, we had a big wave election, a big republican year. In 2006, we had a big wave election, a very big democratic year. Thats n
And look to elections for Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Can the democrats do enough targeted messages from the president , Vice President , clintons and others to remake the electorate in some of the rails where voters dont usually vote younger, africanamerican, asias, hispanics, women turn out to vote in a midterm, thats hard to do. On the republican side, the strategists will tell you they dont think they can live up to running against the other party unless they can appeal to social issues. Social issues not in their favor in most cases. Foreign policy, a lot is going on, but a lot of republican strategists arent saying well win it on Foreign Policy. Six months ago, no doubt people thought republicans were in place to reclaim the senate. The story has changed in these sick months. We do not have a Midterm Election thats looks like the previous two. In 2010, we had a big wave election, a big republican year. In 2006, we had a big wave election, a very big democratic year. Thats n
Mark halperin and John Heilemann. Can the democrats do enough targeted messages from the president , Vice President , clintons and others to remake the electorate in some of the rails where voters dont usually vote younger, africanamerican, asias, hispanics, women turn out to vote in a midterm, thats hard to do. On the republican side, the strategists will tell you they dont think they can live up to running against the other party unless they can appeal to social issues. Social issues not in their favor in most cases. Foreign policy, a lot is going on, but a lot of republican strategists arent saying well win it on Foreign Policy. Six months ago, no doubt people thought republicans were in place to reclaim the senate. The story has changed in these sick months. We do not have a Midterm Election thats looks like the previous two. In 2010, we had a big wave election, a big republican year. In 2006, we had a big wave election, a very big democratic year. Thats not what the data shows abo
Computers going to deal with that . Maybe all the lights will go out. Maybe toasters will start, you know, talking, maybe airplanes will fall out of the sky. It was a strange almost distraction. I mean, im not saying it wasnt a real concern. But the flipping of a calendar into a new millennium was a heck of a milestone to live through. You thought it would have been an occasion for a lot of awe and wonder maybe even spiritual if not just numerological reflection. But mostly we were just really freaked out about y2k. That was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. But its interesting. One very large country where they didnt end up freaking out all that much about y2k on december 31st, 99 while america and the rest of the world was worried about that problem, one place this they ended up not all distracted by that problem, they ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward midnight, was russia. Because russia was distracted by Something Else on december 31th, 19
That next number and that looked like 00, we thought how are the electronics, how are the computers going to deal with that . Maybe all the lights will go out. Maybe toasters will start, you know, talking, maybe airplanes will fall out of the sky. It was a strange almost distraction. I mean, im not saying it wasnt a real concern. But the flipping of a calendar into a new millennium was a heck of a milestone to live through. You thought it would have been an occasion for a lot of awe and wonder maybe even spiritual if not just numerological reflection. But mostly we were just really freaked out about y2k. That was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. But its interesting. One very large country where they didnt end up freaking out all that much about y2k on december 31st, 99 while america and the rest of the world was worried about that problem, one place this they ended up not all distracted by that problem, they ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward