Election Preview

with John Harris, Al Hunt, Mark Halperin, Cokie Roberts, Matthew Dowd and John Heilemann
in Current Affairs
on Monday, November 5, 2012 * * * * *

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Election Preview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg News; Mark Halperin of Time magazine; John Harris of Politico; John Heilemann of New York Magazine; Cokie Roberts of NPR and ABC News and Matt Dowd of ABC News and Bloomberg News

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    1. SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/11/2012 05:16 PM Report

      Charlie, next four years?

      What about approval for the last four years?

      At 3:30 tears of a President:

      http://youtu.be/pBK2rfZt32g

      Who wants to be President with the Republican party trying to cancel out your work as soon as they get elected, not to mention the death threats and all the "nigger" tweets?

      http://jezebel.com/5958490/twitter-racists-react-to-that-nigger-getting-reelected/gallery/1

    2. kingsle80  11/11/2012 03:04 PM Report

      Post election, it's amazing just how stupid and petty Mark Halperin looks. Matt Dowd was dead right. Heilleman and Roberts seemed to be dead right. Halperin's a joke.

    3. finalfantasytown  11/07/2012 07:42 AM Report

      One of the most interesting things is that something reminds someone repeatedly in a very short time if he doesn't notice or pay attention on it.

    4. finalfantasytown  11/07/2012 07:31 AM Report

      Charlie, do you believe what is happening and happened have been perfectly predesigned somewhere? Even numbers are matched. I strongly believe it this time. I have to understand it. for final fantasy.

    5. finalfantasytown  11/07/2012 07:31 AM Report

      Charlie, do you believe what is happening and happened have been perfectly predesigned somewhere? Even numbers are matched. I strongly believe it this time. I have to understand it. for final fantasy.

    6. tabs  11/07/2012 04:23 AM Report

      Several members of this unholy crew have commuted straight on over from MSNBC to opine on the Charlie Rose venue. As such this discussion reeked with Liberalism. Further MS Cookie surely is drawing a stipend from the DNC for her talking points and if she is not drawing that stipend she should be. One found this scintillating discussion to be highly evocative in that this unholy crew had already decided that Romney was going to be defeated before the majority of the votes had been cast and that they had decided what the future agenda of American politics should be.

    7. NeilMacCallister  11/07/2012 03:13 AM Report

      Oh well, ..last month 4 Americans were raped, tortured, and murdered by 200 Al Qaeda thieves in the American Embassy in Benghazi -- while Barack Obama and Joseph Biden watched it all go down in Washington comfort in slow motion on closed circuit White House television.

      Today, 53 million Americans were sentenced to 4 more years of similar treatment by the 54 million government paycheck drawers who will now continue to benefit from the rapes, tortures, killings, poverty, joblessness, and failed schools which have been the hallmark of Obama's first 4 years of "leadership".

      You know? ..Maybe, like Obama, I should ask for "revenge"!

      Yes! ..the next time that well-funded fireman from next door comes over to my house to offer me $5 dollars to mow his lawn -- I think I will demand $6 !!!!

      ..or tell him to stick that $5 dollar bill where his firehouse does not shine!

      ***

      I will weather the NEXT 4 more years of America's continued national poverty -- without that government offered 'blood money'!

    8. NeilMacCallister  11/06/2012 10:57 PM Report

      Hah!! ..Finally!! ..it is the SUPER BOWL !!!

      In BLUE (..hah! Cokie Roberts, too!) ..We have the Government Employee paycheck drawers, ..and their "welfare" clientele!

      In RED, ..we have Americans who work for a living!

      ***

      I just got home from painting for $10/hr.! ..I've got the popcorn popping! ..I can't WAIT to see who we are as Americans!!!

      Bon appetite to us all!!!

      (..including our CHILDREN!!!!!)

    9. SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/06/2012 10:06 PM Report

      So it is all over if Obama wins Florida?

      Why isn't Florida the best place in the world to hold an election?

      Their 29 electoral votes should be stripped from them unless they can hold the brain surgery of elections.

      Florida . . . grunt.

    10. SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/06/2012 09:59 PM Report

      The panel did NOT mention Guam.

      "And each time since 1984, the Guam Straw Poll has correctly predicted who will be the next president."

      Guam, 6,000 miles and 18 times zones away from California, is a territory of the United States, so their votes don't count (just like mine in a "safe state" with the "middle man" Electoral College).

      http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=164400277

      It is Obama.

    11. SharkswithfrikingLazers  11/06/2012 09:42 PM Report

      Cokie was a great addition.

      Norah was good with the guys too but Cokie seems from the street. She even looks like she had to get into a few brawls before she could go up against this usual team of collegial gentlemen.

      Cokie over Norah is my choice. She held her own and made it better.

    12. Richard_DeBiase  11/06/2012 01:44 PM Report

      All Romney had to do is say he would move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule IV or V, and he would have won this election easily. Everyone under estimates how mad us liberals are that 40,000 people have been killed in the Drug War in Mexico during Obama’s first term. I tried to tell Romney. But his position was “I’m not running on marriage or marijuana”. That was a mistake. Moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule IV or V would have been a classic dog-whistle, that only us pro-marijuana voters would hear.

      To review what us liberals are so mad about, please see this 7/19/12 Charlie Rose interview with 3 reporters who cover Mexico:

      http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12467

    13. REMant  11/06/2012 12:37 PM Report

      You mean an election guess. Like many Democrats, Hunt and Harris cannot seem to mouth the truth, maybe not even see it. And I notice there are no Republicans here. Harris' own poll says it's a dead heat. Halperin is just parroting the "results" of the ABC/Post poll, which, I'll aver would never report a clearly negative result on election eve, finding some manner of wording to get the desired result, or at least suggest it.

      Plus, there's likely to a Literary Digest situation. Apart from Gallup and Rasmussen, pollsters, based on the 2008 election, have consistently over-sampled Democrats, and discounted likely voters. And my guess is that those likely to vote for Romney were unlikely to talk to pollsters anyway. Most Republicans' attitudes are more private sector oriented and it is less and less the party of government.

      In any case, according to exit polls of early voters the president has done worse than he did four years ago. The auto-bailout and Bain ads were outright lies, with which no one disagrees, tho they haven't been withdrawn. And frankly I don't see anything in Obama's "handling" of Sandy.

      But Sandy showed something significant about Americans: the worse things become, the more enthusiastic they become. And they care more about empathy than actualities. Altho he seems to have benefited from this, surprisingly, the president has actually been so short on both counts that one is given to wonder what he does in the West Wing all day. Maybe the First Lady should start examining the closets.

      The Democratic party represents the wannabes, the parvenues and the arrivistes: the people who haven't made America; don't own America; frequently haven't even lived in America. And they nearly always have resented the latter, indeed, as the president let slip, they seek revenge. They are afraid of what turning out the first black president would signal. (Tho of course he is no more an Afro-American than Bill Clinton.) My impression is that he has lowered himself substantially in the eyes of most. If elected, he'll not only have no mandate, I really doubt he'll finish out his term.

      The problem with the Romney candidacy was that he was backed so hard by the Bushies and for so long that he's become tainted by the association no matter what his beliefs may be, and no one is still quite sure. Some really dumb ads were put out recently by those goofballs, which cannot have helped him, either. But the argument that Romney is significantly different from Ryan and most of the House Republicans is bogus. On those grounds Ron Paul would have made a better candidate, and probably have eaten Obama's lunch in debate. Howver, even if they are in quandary, Americans do not seem to be ready for that message. If Romney loses, I imagine Christie can look forward to no future in the GOP.

      Whoever is elected today is likely going to face another significant downturn - regardless of the sequestration - and possibly a calamitous one. Under our fiat currency regime, it may not lead to bread lines and soup kitchens, but it will not be recovery. And that can't favor the Democrats in the end. I might add here that a majority of economists recently surveyed (including the Romers) believe raising taxes would prove adverse.

      Our politics appears to be much like our weather: not warming to any one side, but subject to violent clashes, and lacking stability. If we aren't swing voters, most of us are unenlightened ones. The larger picture is of a contest between subsidiarity (family and community) and a monarchy acting directly on individuals (as our ancestors put it), living mostly in cities. Tocqueville, and Montesquieu before, were puzzled by democracy's profession of freedom, yet admiration for leveling and dictatorship. These new Adams were found in the last analysis not to be self-reliant and civically-minded, but clients. The fact is that the Democratic Party is now behind the consolidation the anti-Federalists feared. And they rather like ants and bees, too. In other words, the question these days reflects a referendum on govt, not on who should lead it, as indeed it is re big banks and corporations. Latinos, quite familiar with absolutism, ought to know better.

      As for the pollsters, they might turn from advising clients to advising interviewees, which it appears they can do as well if not better.

      BTW, I expect, in the event of a Romney victory in some Eastern states, for a suit to be brought to grant voters more time.