Book. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Host the gamble ucla professor bin is a coauthor of the book when you hear the term came a change which is that means you . A great question to talk about the 2012 election when i did game change something fundamentally would shift it was going if you were behind and i could become the head then there really looks like you will start losing so something that would shift the status quo. Host is there a game change in elections . Guest there can be but not recently so much but that does not mean there are not everchanging moments but a big one in the future in 2012 or 2008 . Not too many. Host go back to the first debate with mitt romney and barack obama. It is a great example of what can happen when you have unexpected events and Cross Sectional polling which is what we got almost entirely from media organizations. To understand the first debate back up to the 97 video so there we are in Orange County mitt romney is caught on tape saying the as par
evocative. it was dark. there is still power out to almost half a million. there s still standing water, and in some places some got hit in worse water levels than katrina. in other places, it really was a category 1 hurricane. but they are now saying this region leg see this type of level of this storm for every seven years. for the poor people in plaquemines parish, what are they demanding? or what will they be demanding once this water recedes? the geography of this place, there s kind of a ring of protection, and that s what so many taxpayer dollars have gone to to fortify, but then plaquemines is the outlier. it s a long, thin county or parish that goes down south from almost the city limbs down into the gulf. it s just switchy, marsh, bayou, and they re more or less on their own they. if you listen to the folks here that talk about how much land they re losing to erosion every year, the future does not look sunny. brian, thanks so much for taking time out with us. w
you know, we cannot control the price of oil. i checked the price of oil every day because i care. it is a painful time for the american people. i don t think anyone can speculate what can happen with respect to oil and gas prices because they are set on the global economy. what we see happening today are the influencing influences first of unrest in places like the middle east and iran, which disrupt the markets and allow the futures market to play on what they see the on reston romney world. secondly, the huge demand that you see in china, india, and brazil where you have a lot of people just like people in the ninth states, they want to be able to drive their vehicle. so, the unsettled nature of the middle east and what is happening with respect to the global economy really is what has led to the price hikes that we have seen here today. so, where it will all end, nobody knows. but what i do know is this that the fall of the above energy framework is what we need
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