The last two weeks there were eight different groups kind of directed by karl rove directing the choir in the state, polluting the air waves, if you will. i think we won t, because we stayed on a progressive message. it s not left/right, liberal/conservative,ist not whose side are you on? we talked jobs, auto rescue, standing up to china on currency, and leveling the playing field, talked about community colleges, and we also have the best grass-roots effort in the country working with the obama campaign. we had 65 full-time field organizers, tens of thousands of volunteers, and you really need the strong message of progressive strong effort, and you also need a good grass-roots organization. 40 million clearly did us damage. it made the race a lot close are than it would have been, but i think voters in ohio, as we talked on your radio show, voters started to ask themselves why all this outside money?
It s the oil companies, wall street, these groups that karl rove calls upon to fund his political. what about the pickups in the senate? it will be a more progressive caucus, what does that mean? it mean i think the senate will have more backbone, when i see people like tammy baldwin and macy honoro from hawaii, i talked to jeff americaly today ly kly, they ll see a difference in rules, working with the reelected president i think we ll see a stronger progressive move in this country, where john boehner and mitch mcconnell will have to listen more than they have to the voters. they said there was a mandate in 2012 when they won. it s pretty clear this year as you said, pickup in house seats, unbelievable senate. this is the most members of the senate in one party, 25 democrats were elected out of i believe 33 races this year. more than any year in either party since 1964. that s a strong, strong message to move forward.
Cynical. they try to buy them on the one hand, suppress it on the other. karl rove had a bad night, bad day on tuesday. he s got a lot of explaining to do to a lot of billionaires whose money he talked them out of, and i think he s desperate. so now he s trying to sell these people that president obama suppressed the vote. i mean, they really have no boundaries, do they, senator? i ve never heard of suppressing the vote because you made good speeches or you organized your own people to vote. obviously it s one of those things he wished he hadn t said, into you it does son ludicrous, but i m still concerned about this money. we have to change the rules, either through the court or a constitutional amendment. this is clearly bad for our system. ohio senator sherrod brown with us on the ed show. congratulations for your win. thank you very much. up nest, the shamefully long lines on election day. the president says we have to fix this. find out what america needs to do to fix
Buy, you know, you can t overwhelm the congress, you know, with these super pac dollars. i would think there will be reluctance in the future when mr. rove and others come knocking on the door because of what happened on tuesday. let s bring in senator sherrod brown of ohio, victorious on tuesday night. congratulations. good to have you with us. thanks, ed. good to be back. we know they could buy the white house if they re going to lie all the time. they haven t tried the truth yet. i guess we ll have to wait another four years to see how it goes. you were one of karl rove s prime targets. how did you provide survive? they spent $40 million here, $31 or 2 million, and another 7 or 8 on mailings. they ran 50,000 individual ads,
Was pretty hard to handle. one romney advisor said romney was quote shell-shocked by the loss. meanwhile, the mastermind behind most of the lies is still making stuff up. carl karl rove wrote in an op-ed the president was also lucky. this time the october surprise was not dirty trick, but an act of god, hurricane sandy interrupted mr. romney s momentum and allowed mr. obama to look presidential and bi bipartisan. wrong again toured urd blossom. that s what mr. bush used to call you. the hurricane had absolutely nothing to do with the president s win. this chart shows poltracking the last month. you can see president obama re regained his momentum before hurricane sandy hit. reality is coming to haunt the