term. governor, i think it s a little difficult to blame the president for these things when on day one the republicans were saying we re going to obstruct him on everything from the postmaster general who will be nominated for that to the jobs bill. it seems as steve laid out there is a very clear strategy to keep this president from getting anything he wants and making everything take much longer with the express purpose of ruining people s feelings about congress and, thus, returning to the party that s anti-government. this is very difficult to blame on the president when they decided to do this before he even is fully inaugurated. i just don t buy that argument. you re probably right that some of those things are articulated, but there are a number of republicans who did not necessarily believe that. it was not just simply a function of obstructionism by republicans, it was also, i believe, an administration which did not have the game plan to go and try and turn that around.
already election day. early voting starts today! today! she then went on to actually a marching band led the crowd down the street to the polling station, which is sort of amazing. so they are banking votes. and i think maybe that s giving them a sense of confidence despite the president s lackluster debate performance, that they ve already locked in some of the lead that they ve enjoyed. no, that s interesting. a personal editorial comment here. i m all for making it easy to vote. this early voting thing, it s gotten out of control. make it a little tighter closer to the election. what? i don t want people voting before the debates are held. i m with steve. i thought you were being sarcastic, steve? how are you for expanding the franchise? i m all for it but i think we can do it in a way that you know, let s have these debates, then let s have people voting. they can still vote early. but there are so few people
for them to panic. nobody understands these things but you guys. steve, you are one of the superstar nerds. i love that. it s a compliment. you guys are so good with numbers but none of you can tie a tie. what s up with that? let me say this. when you re sitting home at 11:30 and you start getting texts and tweets and said john stewart mentioned you in a show. you get nervous. it could have been a lot worse than that. imagine the feeling when you get texts and tweets saying you re on saturday night live. i m with you. it could have been a lot worse. huge sigh of relief. i m feeling a little left out, tuore. you re in esquire. you re a woman we love in esqui esquire. what are you talking about? now i m blushing. all of those gentlemen have
presidential candidate per se. i agree with you totally, steve. i must agree with you because that s what i wrote on the huffington post so i must agree with it, it s a very important debate. everybody says vice presidential debates aren t important. i say history is bunk to quote henry ford. this one really matters for the reason that you say. as crystal said, there are a lot of freaked out democrats. they need some good news. the democrat spirits are not going to be turned around by registration numbers in various states. the obama campaign put out a memo about that today. that s great for the junk kiss. that s not great or helpful to the spirit of the volunteers and so forth. joe biden needs to be seen as the winner tonight for the very reason you re talking about, the media narrative, which could be crushing if they go 0-2. howard, as the romney team likes to point out. joe biden has done a lot of debates. by my count, 749. no, closer to 23, but he did 14
i have observed that there s a tendency to shoot before you aim, as i pointed out. as president my obligation is to focus on security for our people, making sure that we gather all the facts. that sounds familiar. the president there paraphrasing our good friend steve kornaki s take on the response. this is the first real opportunity we ve had to see the difference in how romney and obama would handle those 3:00 a.m. phone calms and the political fight over foreign policy is shaping up in front of our eyes. mitt romney paints the president as weak, soft and a detriment to global prominence. the president is painting romney as inexperienced, tone-deaf and