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rooted for failure and contributed nothing and stood with the oil companies, the banks, the insurance industry and their basic thrust seems to be let s go back to what we were doing before the crisis. that s not where the american people want to go. one more political question. alvin green in south carolina, unemployed man who is somehow elected oovrps to become the democratic party s senate candidate. is he a legitimate candidate? it doesn t appear so to me. it was a mysterious deal. he didn t campaign no campaign funds. the whole thing is odd. i don t really know how to explain it and i don t think anybody else does either. do you hi he should just get out of the race? would that be wise? i think the democrats of south carolina deserve a strong, credible candidate. he would argue i suppose that he won the primary so that would be him. how he won the primary is a big mystery, and until you resolve that i don t think he can claim
contributed nothing and stood with the oil companies, the banks, the insurance industry and their basic thrust seems to be let s go back to what we were doing before the crisis. that s not where the american people want to go. one more political question. alvin green in south carolina, unemployed man who is somehow elected oovrps to become the democratic party s senate candidate. is he a legitimate candidate? it doesn t appear so to me. it was a mysterious deal. he didn t campaign no campaign funds. the whole thing is odd. i don t really know how to explain it and i don t think anybody else does either. do you hi he should just get out of the race? would that be wise? i think the democrats of south carolina deserve a strong, credible candidate. he would argue i suppose that he won the primary so that would be him. how he won the primary is a big mystery, and until you resolve that i don t think he can claim to be a strong, credible
happened. this is mr. axelrod on meet the press yesterday. here it is. alvin greene down in south carolina, unemployed man who has somehow elected to become the democratic party s senate candidate. is he a legitimate candidate? it doesn t appear so to me. i mean, it was a mysterious deal. he didn t campaign. he had no campaign. no campaign funds. yeah, the whole thing is odd. and you know, i don t really know how to explain it. i don t think anybody else does either. karen hanretty, i would take that as president obama is not going to be campaigning for alvin greene down in south carolina. i don t think he will. i just love that mr. clyburn thinks that the republican party is so well organized so clever that we could actually pull off getting a guy on the ballot with 69% of the vote when we can t even get 69% of the vote for some of our own candidates.
these races are going to be decided at the local level, at the grassroots. and the candidates who speak to the aspirations and concerns of people in their districts and states are going to win. look, the republican party, everybody says, is this 1994. in 1994, the republican party was nearly at 60% in favorability. today they re at an all-time low. why? because in the last year and a half, they ve sat on the sidelines, they ve rooted for nothing, stood for nothing, and they ve stood with the oil companies, the banks, the insurance company. and their basic thrust seems to be, let s go back to what we were doing before the crisis. that s not where the american people want to go. one more political question. alvin green down in south carolina, unemployed man who was somehow elected to become the democratic party s senate candidate, is he a legitimate candidate? it doesn t appear so to me. i mean, it was a mysterious deal. he didn t campaign, he had no no campaign funds. yeah. th