revenues. that is a lot of potential compromise for the gop. after watching some of its most polarizing figures lose this month from richard mourdock, republicans may wants to seem reasonable. but will they partner up on a big piece of bipartisan legislation. rana, i want to go right to you. people forget for all the controversies we have, in obama s first term, the stimulus, health care, these things weren t just vocally opposed, they garnered almost zero republican votes. second terms could be different. will this one be? i wish i could be more optimistic. you have had some moderate voices coming out. you ve had smart people have sort of these come to jesus columns saying we ve got to change. or on immigration, come to jesus. but if you look at the pew exit polling, you see most republicans want the party to go further right. democrats want to meet in the
you referred to an economic calamity. but you and i both know for example wall street. we keep hearing these business leaders and so many others are nervous and we could see an immediate reaction there if some type of deal is not reached before january 1st. sure. the millionaires and billionaires, they ve got a sweet deal now. they will make a lot of noise to say, raise my tax rates and i ll stop investing. of course, these are the same people who spent $400 million, $500 million to get a president hired that would cut their taxes. it would certainly affect it if the white house is saying you ll go off this cliff. you re looking at them pulling back everyday americans for folks in washington who can t get a compromise even when exit polling show the majority are in
this jargon about voter fraud. now we re hearing an entirely new mythology about the fact that we have poll workers simply too overworked. neither of those means hold up and i think you re going to see that. this is absolutely ridiculous. we should want more people voting. we should want a stronger democracy. we should not be trying to keep people out of the system. zerlina, the night of the election, the night of the big defeat, you started hearing all of this about expand the party, we need to reach out, we must be more inclusive and with good reason when you look at the exit polling with unmarried women, the president was ahead. hispanics, 71% voted for president obama as opposed to 27% for mitt romney. african-americans, 93% voted for president obama, only 6% for mitt romney. yet now you have the governors
congressman peter king on the controversy. i agree with chambliss. if i were in congress in 1941, i would have signed al declaration of war against japan. i m not going to declare war against japan today. the times have changed. ronald reagan and tip o neil recognized that in the 80s. everything should be on the table. joining me, ed and david. thank you for joining me. good to see you, alex. you heard representative king on meet the press saying that he agrees on the pledge to not raise taxes. if you look at exit polling, people want to see democrats and
this. you have the washington post which highlighted the number of polls showing people want smaller government but they don t want cuts in any of the entitlement programs. they do want the deficit cuts. you can t have it all, right? right. well, if you look at the exit polling, most were supportive of raising rates on the rich and that has been consistent throughout this election season. i m bullish. i don t know if it s the turkey or the drink or the redskins victory yesterday affecting me here but i m bullish that there will be a solution. you have three dynamics here at play. you have a president who is significantly stronger, i think, speaker boehner is stronger inside of his conference. you have republican governors, people like bill kristol who seem to be saying positive things, encouraging things on tax rates which provide a permission slip for republican legislators to be supportive. and then i think the tone inside of washington is markedly