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General election or not. i dont know if it works -- this is why this election is so important in two weeks. its important who wins the house and senate, governorships, the usual reasons why elections matter, it matters whos governing the country but its also -- weve taken so much i think by republicans in particular as of something of a verdict on trump. trump managed to win in 2016 which he didnt expect him to. mccain lost, romney lost. you could argue is until youre blue in the face, obama was...

Is why this election is so important in two weeks. its important who wins the house and senate, governorships, the usual reasons why elections matter, it matters whos governing the country but its also -- weve taken so much i think by republicans in particular as of something of a verdict on trump. trump managed to win in 2016 which people didnt expect him to. mccain lost, romney lost. you could argue is until youre blue in the face, obama was a tougher candidate than hillary clinton and there a...

Welcome back. if youll indulge me for a minute, i spent the past 48 hours thinking back on the times that i was lucky enough to find myself in the company of john mccain. i first started covering capitol hill back in 2008 when he was the republican nominee for president running against barack obama who was also a member of his beloved united states senate. in the weeks of mccain lost, his famous temper flared pretty often, but soon enough, he returned to his usual form. he was sharply funny. som...

Iowa nice which where faith is so important. this is a guy whos been nothing but bluster, whos insulted everybody and their brother and mother and sister, and yet he has stayed on top. he has defied logic. iowa logic. iowa is notorious for being a late decider. sometimes people change their mind on their way to the caucus, or in the caucus room, itself. so, you know, i think we shouldnt read that much into the polls, but i do think that were beginning to see a trendline and the hot air come out ...

Clean energy and science and technology and research, those were all the things that were going to need to grow over the long term. >> you know, the question i have, doug, historically is why do you think the democratic campaign, which is spending a lot of money making the case the best they can for obama under current conditions, why dont they blame "w"? its not like the republicans were out of power like they were say in 1946, theyve been out of power for a generation. these guys are recent de...

This now but what will they say when they get in office? one other step -- >> you know why they say that to the older people? because every time it comes up a chance to cuss something the republicans want to cut medicare. >> thats the danger of putting ryan on the -- one quick thing on older folks, chris. in 2008 john mccain lost them by -- won them by four. in 2004 george bush won them by eight. obviously we know in 04 bush won. in 08 mccain lost. you start talking about medicare every day youl...

Voters that will determine the outcome of the race, they tune out and they reengage in september. >> the republicans are not very impressed with how romneys handled it. lets listen to george will. >> mitt romneys losing at this point, in a big way. if somethings going to come out, get it out in a hurry. i do not know why, given that mr. romney knew the day that mccain lost in 2008, that he was going to run for president again, that he didnt get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore ac...

Conventions, and i think your average american, certainly the voters that will determine the outcome of the race, they tune out and they reengage in september. >> the republicans are not very impressed with how romneys handled it. lets listen to george will. >> mitt romneys losing at this point, in a big way. if somethings going to come out, get it out in a hurry. i do not know why, given that mr. romney knew the day that mccain lost in 2008, that he was going to run for president again, that he...

Of his own and fill that space with one of the republican party female stars. with me, margaret cho, bill shid schneider, jane junn and jelani cobb. >> sarah palin didnt work out so well for mccain. he doesnt want to take a risk. hes a businessman, and he wants to take very calculated risks. so most guessing is he he will pick someone -- after what mccain did, he will pick someone relatively safe. >> it didnt work. mccain lost, but it did undoubtedly shift that media focus. i remember the dnc, e...

Campaign. >> anna marie, isnt it true you covered the john mccain campaign, wasnt mccain even more firm in terms of the boundaries that he would set and stop people if they went too far. and he tried to play the gentleman saying the president was, at that point, senator obama was a good guy, he just disagreed with him? didnt mccain run a different campaign trying to pull some of this back when it got out of hand? >> i think he tried to. there is a lot of republican thats say thats why mccain los...