ideas to step forward with a fresh message? what about that, karen? you know, here is the problem, ed. it s not just the message, right. it is the policies. think about so while bobby jindal was making those comments, we know that a majority of americans from our own nbc/wall street journal poll believe that access to legal abortion, majority agree with that, that roe v. wade should be the law of the land. what is the republican agenda? to try to overturn roe v. wade and take those rights away from women. we know the majority of americans support a path to citizenship. what is the republican agenda? a fake path to citizenship. point being, it is their policies. i will say quickly that after the 2004 election when democrats got beat and we kind of went back and said what is going on here, we did some real polling, and we found that americans actually agreed with us on our values. sure. but it was how we were communicating. republicans can t say that americans don t agree with them
you know, here is the problem, ed. it s not just the message, right. it is the policies. think about so while bobby jindal was making those comments, we know that a majority of americans from our own nbc/wall street journal poll believe that access to legal abortion, majority agree with that, that roe v. wade should be the law of the land. what is the republican agenda? to try to overturn roe v. wade and take those rights away from women. we know the majority of americans support a path to citizenship. what is the republican agenda? a fake path to citizenship. point being, it is their policies. i will say quickly that after the 2004 election when democrats got beat and we kind of went back and said what is going on here, we did some real polling, and we found that americans actually agreed with us on our values. sure. but it was how we were communicating. republicans can t say that americans don t agree with them on their positions. just today john boehner released a video for
released a video for the march for life. let s take a look at it. with all that is at stake, it s becoming more and more important for us to share the truth with our young people and to encourage them to lock arms, speak out for life, and help make abortion a relic of the past. let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year. didn t the republicans already lose that fight, eugene? how is anything going to be different? nothing is going to be different. there is an uneasy consensus in the country, but it s a fairly durable consensus that nobody loves abortion, but abortion should be legal and infrequent, as infrequent as we can make it. and that is that s the basic agreement. that s what people basically believe. they don t believe what republicans want, which is to outlaw all abortions in every case, according to their platform, and as a result, they re seen as hostile to the