the table. you actually believe there should be a tax cut. well, the question is also you know, i think there should be a tax cut. we re in a recession, people my age can t find work. i understand that, ron. i m not going to dispute that. we want to be clear. what you re saying is the president wins election, the presidential election, and he wins it on a debate about taxes, post-election exit polling reveals that in excess of 60% of americans support his view that taxes on the top 2% should go up, but your position is, no, we should cut taxes. the problem is you think we lost on messaging. i think we lost on tactics. the left knocked on doors, went to communities and talked to them. all the right does is try to use ads and robocalls to try to make our message. the most annoying tactics possible and we think people will believe what we re saying. i don t think people think that the job creators aren t doing enough, they need to be paying more, that we need to go out and say thi
battleground states and shows people asked in favor of raising taxes on households over $250,000, 60% said they were in favor. reducing medicare for wealthy seniors, 51% favor that move. and then you ask about raising social security age, nearly two thirds oppose. 34% favor. 64% the number that matters. oppose it. the last number for you to look at is across the board cuts. 75% say they favor those cuts. 23% say they do not. so a hodgepodge of things and mostly focused on the taxes, 60%. the president has that number to use in addition to what we learned after the exit polling election night and the results of the election. and so, i think it s a foregone conclusion that tax rates for the wealthiest of americans are going up and as a pra practical matter, i don t understand why the gop doesn t
huckabee s presidential campaign. welcome. you look resplend end in purple, karen. are we experiencing a liberalization of america? if so what is the catalyst? if you take a look at both the issue landscape and the exit polling from the most recent election, i think it gives you kind of a road map as to what s going on here. i mean, we are a more diverse country. we have more diverse backgrounds and interests. we did see sort of the issue landscape with regard to the exit polling showing that people s opinions are changing on a lot of these issues. look at the millennial generation. they are far more tolerant generation, far more diverse generation. i think what this reflects is those same kind of demographic shifts that we saw manifest itself both in our census and in the election. chip, i want to play for you a clip from msnbc s hardball last night. let s all take a listen to this. center right party very much like the country.
create the jobs, to create the revenue we need. you hear some republicans, a senator saying that the president does not somehow get economic growth. a lot of them focusing in on stimulus money the white house wants as a part of this deal. what is your response? you ve got polls that indicated the exit polling right after the election that most americans were in support of people who make over $250,000 paying a higher tax. they have confidence in this economy, perhaps the reason that your party saw success in the election. what do you make of this notion that, again, some republicans say the president doesn t get small business or economic growth somehow? well, i think the american people roundly rejected that. they think the president gets it. that s why they voted for the president. more than that, economists think the president gets it. this really is a balanced approach, and i don t think any credible economist will tell you we can simply cut our way out of the current deficits
menendez when you learned the latino vote was the decides factor in the leaks, what was your reaction? a coming of aim. coming of age, this community has grown so in the country. served in the armed forces of the united states over many, many wores, contributed economically, finally here was the constantly referred to sleeping giant awakening. the awakened giant was enormous. 71% of the vote. making the difference in states like florida, virginia, new mexico, and colorado. and all exit polling saying the difference was immigration policy the ugly rhetoric attached to it. the republican party didn t understand that even for all of us who are united states citizens, the community knows someone who is a relative, a neighbor, a friend, who is undocumented. and they shared a seasons sense of that play.