driving a car. that is the image that i think i have seen a lot of appalling things on these voter suppression efforts. we have heard state-level officials saying this is about getting a win for governor romney in pennsylvania. that image, this idea of voting should feel like the police following you, that made me sick to my stomach. and someone who has routinely followed the police as i drive around. it is appalling. two quick things. a lot of these battleground state polls are still quite frankly just outside the margin of error. it is not a sort of landslide scenario as of yet. another part is that in almost every battleground state, democrats are being outspent 4 or 5 to 1. that s going to be a key. you are going to see an onslaught of negative advertising. i want to pull back our enthusiasm from the landslide.
follow the money is a very good idea. i don t have empirical evidence for it but when i smell it, is msmells like koch. the koch brothers are a big backer for americans for prosperity, a big true the vote. under an american for prosperity banner. the secrecy, it s money, we know it is well-funded, well coordinated. we know they are reaching out to secretaries of state. gue it is very well coordinated. to talk about kris kobach when we get back. the kansas state secretary is prepared to take the president s name off the ballot. that s voter suppression to the extreme. up next, i will talk about why republicans are seeming to melt into a steaming pile of
what s in your wallet? i usually say that. in an article published in week on the grio.com, they observed that barack obama s republican opponents have a ten dency to implode. in 2004, his first opponent was forced out by a sex scandal. his replacement, alan keys was, well, alan keys. i know you remember in 2008 when senator john mccain suspended his campaign as the economy collapsed leaving the distinct impression that he was incapable of the multi-tasking required to be president. not only is romney shoving both his foreign policy left feet as far down his throat as possible but governor john kasich of the swing state of ohio is helping out the gop warren women image with this little gem.
if, on the one hand, if we believe polls and we believe they are accurate representations of preferences, we have what looks like u.s. preferences for president obama and then we have suppression efforts and the big money, is that enough to take those preferences and turn them into a different outcome? democrats are so excited about this idea that barack obama could win but he could lose this election for all the reason we are talking about. voter suppression is very serious. the voting right act does not cover pennsylvania, wisconsin, where there is a huge vote to accept press the black vote and votes of colors and cutting back on the number of days they can vote before the day. barack obama could lose this election. people should not get all excited about these polls. i love polls but there is a lot they don t say. there has been so much good
be relaxed and grows out of the no child behind legislation which the obama legislation has been trying to fix. what would be the terms of accountability? i am not against teacher accountability but against poor measures for teacher accountability. what should be good enough for rahm emanuel s children should be good enough for the rest of the students in this country and i think fighting for that kind of reform would be important. they don t rely on standardized testing. all research shows that it increases surface level thinking among students and is wildly inaccurate as a means of evaluating anybody. in new york, it had a 35% margin of error rate or up to 53% depending on which exam you were talking about. if i had that margin of error evaluation, i would lose my job immediately. the idea this is in any way about improving education is a lie. we have to reframe the whole debate and talk about what is it that quality schools could look like. if people haven t read what the