let me give you information from target smart we ve been working with nbc news. the percentage of republican-affiliated first-time voters, 40%, is equal to the percentage of democratic first time voters and democratic affiliated first-time voters outpaced the voters so in florida 40% to 30%. themmer son college poll, rick, has a race statistically tied. it may be the poll that the emerson race poll is the one that howard was referring to. do you think beto o rourke can get the gains. texas is trending purple.
my life. he was the best father i could ask for. it s awful someone gets killed for being a police officer. everyone says they hate cops but they are the people they call for help. i will always love you and never forget you. everyone says they hate cops but they are the ones they cow for help. it ser in easy to watch somebody being arrested. firefighters goy in and save lives and take people out of fires. cops have to go in and lock people up in a community and lock people up in a household. it s ugly to look at but we do it well and we should thank god for themmer day. martha: could the answer to north korea s string of threats lie with its ally? how china could potentially help
job would be. i sort of doubt it. he definitely understood how conservative the new members of his caucus were. how suspicious many of themmer of him. on that day nearly three years ago, boehner was mainly foleying the joy of realizing a lofty goal he pursued for decades. so those were tears of happiness in his eyes. he was genuinely pleased to be speaker of the house of representatives. that moment of triumph for boehner was bill on an exceedingly shaky foundation because the votes that gave the house majority t. votes that made john boehner speaker three januarys ago, they came from the tea party. it was tea party inspired, tea party backed, tea part aligned, republicans who were key to the mammoth 63-seat gain the republicans posted in the 2010 mid-terms. those tea party republicans were at the heart of everything john bohner and the house gob have done since then. their first year, republican freshmen like scott from tennessee, ben quayle, sean
they will no per my legislation tax rates will not go, economic decisions about hiring people will not be affected. certainly on the personal side some deductions they have will go away. republicans for decades talked about having a flatter tax rate. that is what really i m advocating and you think that s what we ought to do. bill: senator, thank you. grow very norquist is coming up next hour. he has things to say about this. bob corker keeping things fair and balanced next hour. we ll talk to the ranking themmer member of the house budget committee, chris van hollen. we ll talk about what his party will do to keep the nation from going over the fiscal cliff. 34 days. martha: it will go over a bit into january and that will force the issue and they will come together and we ll get something close to that grand bargain on the table that was walked away from. where are we with all of this? much more coming up on that. more than two million americans could lose their unemployment benefits
leadership. that is the issue with swing voters. gregg: look at washington post-abc poll. the president has a net positive. flip to governor romney who has a net negative. all thank you is our point. all thank you is why in all the polls of the states we were talking about, nevada, colorado, iowa, as pat and doug said the voters have left obama, he now is around 41 percent, and they have not gone do romney. they are parking themselves in undecided, sitting there, waiting to be sold by governor romney. if i am governor romney i want to sit down with the american people and tell themmer here is why i want to be a president. what obama is doing, a romney negative, by staying negative obama can win. that is incorrect, i believe, but that is how they are