and vote for republicans because they give a comfort zone for their racism. it has been said that the gop makes satan look like a student. they use the common white men for their games, their only for the rich, the corporations. host: we will continue with more of your calls and comments in the next hour. as we focus on the start of the 140 congress a reminder, we will have a life of our program on tuesday, kicking off the new congress, starting off at 7:00 am eastern time. our sunday roundtable, what to expect for the 114 congress in the year ahead in politics. you re watching and listening to c span s washington journal on this sunday morning, january 4. the c span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u. s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend, we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to austin, texas. we are in a private suite of linden and lady bird johnson. this was the private quarte
guest: i think it puts a lot of very challenging position. despite all the good economic news, a lot of people are so anxious about their personal economic situation. as much of the as you can look at these national trends, the average person worrying about the future, it is very hard to tell them you should be happy, when they are anxious about their mortgage payment. host: interest rates continue to stay at low levels. would you agree or disagree? guest: we started to look into how people were feeling compared to how things are going in the state what we found was that partisanship in the polls drives a lot of negativity. republicans are much more likely to say they feel good about their economy. we see this with a good number of questions. it has become it is a standing partisan question. if democrats are in the white house, with republicans think that things are going poorly, and vice versa. our concern is this partisan mindset is starting to seep into how people
feel the president was right. i want to underscore the same president the president made. i felt the same as the president did. i think romney s leaning obama. [ laughter ] but where on earth is the serious press coverage of their exchanges on libya, on afghanistan, on terrorism? plus, obama s media blitz from brian williams to jay leno to mtv. what are you most worried about? malia getting a driver s license, malia going out on a date, or malia being on facebook? i worry about facebook right now even just for security reasons. you know, she doesn t have a facebook page. are the media giving the president a friendly platform? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. did you know that mitt romney engages in spraytanning before major events? that is what buzz feed is reporting and mass conjecture in social media despite a denial from the romney campaign. this is ephemeral stuff that s been coloring the campaign challenge, a challenge from media organiza
league texas did not have approval of changing voting laws. a based on the history of pervasive voting relateed discrimination the supreme court itself failed to recognize that we believe the state of texas should be requiring to through a pre-clearance process before it changes any voting packet. michael: holder wants to bail in pre-approval requirements for texas. in 2011 texas was awarded four new seats in the house which required them to redraw the redeem the law. in his opinion thomas griffith wrote: without the voting rights act texas would not need to be concerned with the federal judges but holder found a way to hold texas accountable. if they side with the justice department decision, the pre-approval requirement would apply to texas for ten more years. state attorney general greg abbott announced on twitter outside of obama s elections to control our elections i ll fight against cheating at the ballot box. but texas was the first battle. the first state to chang
the dance craze going viral online. number one since billboard added youtube video views to its formula for ranking the top 100 songs in the country. they released the song last year. recently skyrocketed to viral video fame. the harlem shake cnn couldn t resist getting in on the harlem shake action, doing our own little harlem shake video earlier in the week. there you go. that s what i m talking about. i don t know. hey, i missed that opportunity. you and i will have to do it over the weekend, fredricka. although i ve been kind of under a rock. i didn t know about the harlem shake until recently. now i m onboard. it s all right. it s pretty simple. you can do it. have a great day. hello, everyone. i m fredricka in for brooke baldwin. the news starts right now. just in to cnn, the fallout from that explosive doping confession continues for disgraced cyclist lance armstrong. he now faces a powerful new adversary, the united states government. cnn has just learned