in and what s the future. and the ground game beat out big money. leo gehrard on the success of the get out to vote effort over citizens united. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. we are coming right back. we re going to try to stump some political junkies with questions from bing elections. do you know where your polling place is? maybe somewhere around my house. mine s just, right over that way. well you can find out exactly where it is using bing elections. it s a good day for politics. which way do you lean politically? conservative. republican. well, using the bing news selector you can find news from whichever way you lean. (together) social on this side, financial. which party is currently predicted to win a majority in the senate? the republicans? would you make a bet on that? no. are you chicken?
and now terry o neill will weigh in and what s the future. and the ground game beat out big money. leo gehrard on the success of the get out to vote effort over citizens united. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. we are coming right back.
boots on the ground. that s the only way they were going to be able to fight the big money of citizens united. and last night the ground game did the job for the democrats and the president. this ground game was dominated by the wage earners of america. because they saw this election as a real threat to their livelihood. these workers were up against millionaires and billionaires, like the koch brothers and sheldon adelson spending millions on super pacs to defeat president obama. but what they couldn t buy was a ground game. the united steel workers, for example. them alone had 7,000 volunteers, who knocked on over 170,000 doors, just in the past two weeks. the boots on the ground proved it s possible to fight back against this wall of money that we re seeing. this corporate money, this influence, this effort to suppress the vote. for more, let s turn to leo gehrard, president of the united steelworkers international. mr. gehrard, you don t have to get your blood pressure up tonight.
tonight, this election was about boots on the ground. that s the only way they were going to be able to fight the big money of citizens united. and last night the ground game did the job for the democrats and the president. this ground game was dominated by the wage earners of america. because they saw this election as a real threat to their livelihood. these workers were up against millionaires and billionaires, like the koch brothers and sheldon adelson spending millions on super pacs to defeat president obama. but what they couldn t buy was a ground game. the united steel workers, for example. them alone had 7,000 volunteers, who knocked on over 170,000 doors, just in the past two weeks. the boots on the ground proved it s possible to fight back against this wall of money that we re seeing. this corporate money, this influence, this effort to suppress the vote. for more, let s turn to leo gehrard, president of the united steelworkers international. mr. gehrard, you don t have to
terry o neill. the diverse coalition that won it all with annette in florida and the great nina turner in ohio. and the boots on the ground have prevailed over citizens united, with leo gehrard of the steelworkers. we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. we are and forever will be the united states of america. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. today we re on the other side of history. last night we saw a statement election in america and it opens up a huge opportunity for democrats to move this country forward. this was the scene in chicago, the moment president obama supporters were told he secured enough electoral votes to be re-elected as the 44th president of the united states. president obama is not niaive about his place in history. the victory was a repudiation of the right wing agenda.