when the week began. governor, we ll start with you. i didn t realize mitt romney had quite the sense of humor he did. all the nicknames he gave his vice presidential candidates was an eye opener. i don t think chris christie would appreciate it. congressman frost. i want tom davis on my trivia team, not against him. when we teamed up a couple years ago we won a contest in washington. and the reigning champion, congressman? there s a series of elections, you know of course about new jersey and virginia, talked about the alabama special. there s a state senate election in washington state that will determine control of the state senate, not partisan control but operational control out there. everybody s going to look for trends about who the winners and losers are and everybody will have bragging rights after tuesday, both parties. dave. the next republican move against bom care will be another stab at the naf gaye or thes. at the end of the week, republicans were saying w
thing. are you pro choice. that made you a non-starter with a wing with the republican party. that doesn t exist. that particular one doesn t. they still don t, the very hard right conservatives, the purist conservatives, he has i think about the highest negative numbers. that s where they are, the very hard right conservatives, again, these two elections come out the way it looks as if they re going to and the republicans lose virginia, which tra terribly does not elect a governor, the same party of the sitting president and we lose the demographics of women and minorities and chris christie wins in new jersey and he picks up women and minorities, particularly hispanics and black, then it s going to at least be pretty clear to people if you want to win obvious a national scale, you ve got to appeal to more than just the very narrow base. the hard leaners in the republican party don t care about that. they don t care. there is going to be a civil war tore the nomination. he s not
for hire. let s illustrate it a little bit. first of all, look at the gender gap that exists. i have not seen a race horse this stark. this is the washington post poll 45-44 among men. among women a 24-point lead for terry mcauliffe among women. here is a quote. one of the interviews from that poll that sort of illustrates where that s coming from, a 64-year-old female voter from virginia saying i am not a fan of terry mcauliffe. i think he s a light weight, if he s the only democrat, he gets my vote the devil himself would be better on women s issues than ken cuccinelli. tom, i guess, this to me seems in virginia the ultimate test of what the tea party can do in a general election in a swing state. terry mcauliffe is a weak democratic candidate this is an off year election. it should favor the republican. all these conditionsist that should make this a winnable race for republicans. like you say, the fact that cuccinelli will lose this, is
probably the worst candidate e.w. jackson, won the speech and the nomination. lt. gov.. so they have to learn something from that. there is always a tendency to spin. they will probably trade libertarians for spoiling the vote. i heard that one. the ties to the businessman and the scheme with governor mcdonald. in the republican convention in virginia of course gave us oliver north 20 years ago. there is another race on tuesday, this name probably won t mean anything to folks out there. but in alabama, there is a special election the republican primary and a special election in a very republican district to replace a member of congress who just left. so these are the two candidates. dean young and bradley byrne. this is the test after the republican establish. versus the tea party win. bradley byrne is involved in the republican paemplt dean wrung the unabashed tea party candidate. there are national sort of
they will show up and vote. will you care as much as they do and show up and vote? that was bill clinton rallying the troops for terry mcauliffe to be on track to be elected three days from now. he has energized the far right. this turned off women and swing voters in the process, for the first time in 40 years, virginians are poised to elect a government as the president they can sweep all three offices on tuesday. lt. gov. and attorney general to add to the two u.s. senate seats they already control. if that happens, it will mark the first time since 1969 the dying days when segregation has led the democratic party. the democrats have held all five offices at once. how are they making all of this party history? with an uninspiring candidate at the top of the ticket. they described mcauliffe as quote the democrat democrats have been dying to vote against.