hillary clinton. and what s fascinating about this is they re obviously not voting as one issue voters. and at that dinner, hillary clinton delivered a very strong endorsement of roe v. wade and also the medical reasons for late-term abortions, and that is apparently catholics many catholics are not going to vote on that single issue, and that s somewhat of a change. not single issue certainly. robert, let s build on what eleanor was alluding to there, the issue of abortion. trump brought it up at the dinner. nearly half of catholics surveyed saying abortion is a very important issue in who they vote for. with that said, then, which of the two candidates theoretically should be ahead right now? some of the headlines have been reading recently trump and the catholic vote, it s his to lose. that was in the hill for instance. it should be in theory his to
the cliff is closer. you got to be your enown editor. on twitter you have to be your own editor. it s a medium that rewards speed even more than all of the other ones that we re on and there s no time for an additional layer of checking. if you can t trust yourself to edit yourself, don t get on twitter. there may be a whole new classification of job here. joe, i want to come back to you something you said a moment ago about officials and trouble you have with officials. what eleanor said a few minutes ago and when the new york times is up against here, erasing the clock. a huge story. fact of the matter is if you are going to report in this town, you will report unnamed officials. people say protect me on this. use the information. i don t want you to they will anymore what building i m in. are you saying the new york times shouldn t do that. i m just saying it s happening more and more it seems. that s part of the race to be first. one more thing i want to point out is
predictions. will they get a deal done? eleanor? they ll get something i think to slip us into the new year. and even if we go over the cliff, it s really not that steep. i think they can recover. rachel. absolutely. i think they will either punt as we have seen congress do, that is not unprecedented in history, give it some kind of little band aid approach to get us to the new year, or dive over the cliff but come back and pull us up, use the rope ladder or whatever they need to do in january to work out an actual deal. loving the analogies. very good. an astonishing fact about ohio and the election and how reverend jesse jackson was in the middle of all of it. i m talking with him next.
blinks first. rachel, listening to what eleanor is quoting bill crystal having said this morning on the talk shows, wouldn t it have been smarter for the republicans to get to that point a week ago if not sooner before the election? this is a real test for both john boehner and president obama. as any negotiation works, we see in the capitol, in this area, each side has to first mark their territory, go to their corners. and after each side has clearly established with their own position, then and only then can we start to see movement toward the middle. so the interesting thing about the dueling press availabilities that the president and the house speaker had on friday was that even though the positions sounded so different, they did both seem to leave a little bit of room for negotiation on this issue of raising revenue someby
issue on the front burner and it s an issue of, needless to say, life and death. emily, taking what eleanor is saying, how much of this is a politically created time clock? there is so much on the table, so much that is currently being worked through when we come around to the 2012 presidential election that it s like we have to see this guy through. well, there s some of that going on and also the 2010 elections are creating somewhat of a different dynamic here on capitol hill. the chances of getting major pieces of legislation passed this year before the 2010 elections are pretty diminished. you re coming off health care, which was a divisive political fight and coming into the nomination of a supreme court justice which is also going to create a pretty divisive fight on capitol hill and elsewhere. i think that s going to create a tough climate for the president to push things through before the 2010 election. you saw senator reid promising that they d get immigration done. that