register and turn them out to give georgia a shot at being a competitive state? absolutely, chris. first of all, it s a multipronged approach. as you know, registering people to vote requires an investment in resources, in time and energy. one of the things we have to make sure we have is a sustained and working democratic party in the state of georgia which we have a great party led by porter and his fantastic staff and other members. it requires ongoing investment of engagement in the communities. what tends to happen is we think about voter registration only around election time. right. it s going to require ongoing engaged with the community on a regular basis. okay. so that let s say you had that. what would the price tag for that be? what are you talking about? what kind of organization, what kind of dollars would have to be spent as someone who has learned the lessons of the obama campaign which is probably more successful in doing this than anyone else ever? what woul
running against him right now on capitol hill. in the public polls. and whether he acknowledges that this is a challenge and whether he is thinking about any plan bs, plan cs or plan ds. clearly disappointed with the lack of new international support which is what they hope to get out of here. right, which deeply hurts them from their liberal frank. with one thing we heard from the congressman we just had on the show is this idea that the president has to sell this more effectively. is that the conventional wisdom now from the white house folks you talk to, that this can all be solved with one oval office address? well, that s whether it can be solved with that, thing it s a multipronged approach. the question is, if that s the minimum, you know, but what else could they do? this is both, now, an inside strategy and outside strategy. i think they understand the
look at that chasm among women, also horrible 50 years later, and the feeling that there s not as much opportunity to move out of that state of affairs. i mean, the fact that studies are show noug that people born in poverty are likely to be tracked in poverty belies the whole idea of what america was founded on, the idea that if you come here, you use our talents, you work hard, you ll have a more generous life for you and your children. we have to make a national commitment again. i think the lesson of the civil rights march, there must have been doubt that you could change an entire system of segregation, but they overcame that doubt. we now have to overcome the doubt that we can change poverty. there was a national commitment to poverty under lbj. he had a multipronged approach. he had model cities, work-studies, job corps, education. the war in vietnam cut it short. there were some flaws in it. he once said we re going to crawl, walk, and run, we ll get this thing. we need to re
look at that chasm among women, also horrible 50 years later, and the feeling that there s not as much opportunity to move out of that state of affairs. i mean, the fact that studies are show noug that people born in poverty are likely to be tracked in poverty belies the whole idea of what america was founded on, the idea that if you come here, you use our talents, you work hard, you ll have a more generous life for you and your children. we have to make a national commitment again. i think the lesson of the civil rights march, there must have been doubt that you could change an entire system of segregation, but they overcame that doubt. we now have to overcome the doubt that we can change poverty. there was a national commitment to poverty under lbj. he had a multipronged approach. he had model cities, work-studies, job corps, education. the war in vietnam cut it short. there were some flaws in it. he once said we re going to crawl, walk, and run, we ll get this thing. we need to re
that there s huge inequality in the country in terms of median income. we have a chart here. this isn t purely an economic discussion, but this is one of those data points that really illustrates the point. you look at the bottom 10%, it s like a straight line. it s not going up. for the top 5% it s steadily progressed as you look back to 1963. i don t have to tell you, you look at that chasm among women, also horrible 50 years later, and the feeling that there s not as much opportunity to move out of that state of affairs. i mean, the fact that studies are showing now that people born in poverty are likely to be tracked in poverty belies the whole idea of what america was founded on, the idea that if you come here, you use our talents, you work hard, you ll have a more generous life for you and your children. we have to make a national commitment again. i think the lesson of the civil rights march, there must have been doubt that you could change an entire system of segregation, but