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Its not unique to this election or Republican Party. In 2004 Many Democrats believed he had a device on his shoulder so he would be given instructions during the debate. Its snanty. I think in our Politics Today both parties want to construct an image of their opponent that is not grounded in reaty. So the alternative universe. There are two. One is the Romney Campaign had an unrealistic view of what the electorate was going to be and that was one of the reasons they lost. Certainly one of the reasons they went in the election confident. Th wasnt an act. They thought they were going to win. But there is this view of barack obama. If you read and watch the conservative Entertainment Complex how could this guy get reelected because were socialist and week on terism and were not honest and tts not how most of america cease the president. Even those that voted against us, most of them dont see us that way. So that is the problem. I think its an underestimating of your opponents strength an
What happened here was the crux of our terrible National Trial and even americans who arent sure what transpired on these fields know that all the glory and all the tragedy we associate with the civil war resides most indelibly here. Thursday night at 8 00 Stephen Spielberg on the battle of gettisburg beginning thursday on cspan 3 American History tv. Next president obamas former Campaign Manager David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt talk about the 2012 election. Both mr. Playoff and mr. Schmidt attended the university of delaware. Welcome back to the National Agenda program. Im director for the center of political communication. This is the final program of the 2012 president ial election season. Im very very pleased that all of you are here tonight and i know thats a tribute to our two guest speakers this evening. Two years ago in the wake of the sha lacking president obama took in the midterm congressional elections, the architect of the president s 2008 victory David Plouffe stood on thi
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The basic problem is really coming up with a bill that will able to get a majority of support within the house and senate and it seems to me that i think they may be getting close to that. As far as getting a more privatestyle of management, it is the sort of a tough not the they are trying to crack. They have several layers now at the Postal Service. I think what they are trying to do in the house bill is to create the idea that you have more of a private the best type of group of managers that could come in within a couple of years if the financial problems are not resolved by the steps that would be prescribed by the legislation that would perhaps be in the future something that would happen. Host the caller mentioned about unions do union see that as a way of breaking up the unions . Guest certainly, there has been there is a lot of pressure on to reduce the size of the workforce. They have about 500,000 workers. What is in the legislation is in sentence, payments, that would be ma