john holbert running against him. your opponent looks like a guy who is giving tough talk but seems like a weak figure to deliver it. he s nervous, looks like a neofight. what historic background does he come from except his father? your thoughts? he s entitled to his çopini. i think he studied history in college. i ve got different people i would have picked, maybe harding, i don t know, coolidge. i could think of a fair number. hoover is up there. nixon. there s plenty. you re being tough. you mean president obama ranks near the bottom with those characters? no, absolutely not. his term is less than half over. i think it s silly. you know, let s let the voters decide in cd 3 this fall who s the best candidate for their spot. i would tell you that ad was done in large part to change the subject out here in arizona and frankly to, make it more of a national race for ben. can a big wave election like we re seeing that may be coming
horizon rig on the night of april 20th. so it will be interesting to see what role it thinks the blowout preventer played in the accident. and also, just within the half hour, the federal government came out and said, they re finding no evidence of dead zones anywhere from about 3,300 feet to 4,300 feet in the gulf of mexico. norah? all right, anne thompson, thanks so much. good to see you. and today s nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows the political environment is worse now than it was in 94 or 06. let s get right to democratic strategist, bob shrum and msnbc political analyst, pat buchanan. all right, great to see both of you. first of all, given the numbers that we ve seen today in the nbc news wall street journal poll, bob, this is going to be a landslide election, a big wave election? i m not ready to say that. but i have to admit, i feel a little bit like pat did when we were sitting here in 06 having these same frconversations.
it s the same thing here as it is across this country. that s i didn t think you are going to see a pretty big wave election in november of this year. all right. i would expect republicans to say that to you. are you hearing is anyone coming up to you spontaneously and saying, i m an independent. i m a democrat. i voted democrat last time. i am changing my mind and that s why i have come to hear you talk or campaign for someone. as a matter of fact, i did an evented for congressman steve king here in sioux city and an independent came up to me with questions about immigration. as you know, that s a hot-button issue that pulls people from all over the ideological map. he said i was an independent. he supported barack obama last time. he is very, very concerned about the immigration issue and making sure and he is from arizona, but he s here in iowa. i think taking care of a relative or something lick that. he told me that this is a big issue for him and he wants to make sure we ha
can t afford to provide. the same thing here as across the country. that s why i think are going to see a big wave election in november of this year. greta: i would expect republicans to say that to you. are you hearing is anyone coming up to you and saying i m an independent or democrat, i voted democrat last time, i m changing my mind? that s why i have come to hear you talk or campaign for someone. as a matter of fact, i just did an event for congressman king in sioux city an independent came up to me who had questions about immigration. as you know is a hot button issue that pulls people from all over the map. he said i was an independent. he supported barack obama last time. that he s very concerned about the immigration issue. from arizona but he s here in iowa. i think taking care of a relative or something. he told me that this is a big issue for him and he wants to make sure we have someone
your buddy joe biden going out there to do his damage control? wow! juliet: with the party second in command, making such a denyive tiff prediction denyive tiff direction, does he take a risk? if he s wrong it doesn t matter and if he decides to take it the other way he s in big trouble. this is a semantics argument. joe biden does what he had to do and andrea, i m impresswood your historical knowledge of campaigns and politics, but when the senate has gone republican and house has not gone republican, so it is true that in a big wave elections it s more than likely both houses split but this is not going to be a big wave election. there s no indication right now simply because the republicans have hired negative higher negatives than the democrats. well, no, they don t, not anymore. yes they do. no, they don t. it s showing that republicans are gaining, and i would point to a recent fox news poll that showed that 41 percent of voters are going out there to vote against bar