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Are about getting the base out and the republican base has not been fired up since 2004 and now theyre fired up this year and democrats dont have a strong candidate in alaska, so it looks like who ever would win the primary would go on to win. theres expectation murkowski could run as an independent. its causing some problems but in november turnout is going to be key and if you look at the enthusiasm gap between republicans and democrats, republicans are the ones fired up, the democrats are the...

Undoing. i dont know if he will have to step down or anybody needs to have him step down. jim clyburn had an african-american return against him, joe wilsons campaign consultants managed his campaign. he got contributions from republicans. we receive this republican effort to interfere in the democrat nominating process. this could be one more effort on the part of not dawson, but some of the crazy people in the republican party. shannon: representative wilsons campaign manager says representati...

Years, conservatives as well as liberals, she spent so many years being careful, trying not to say anything on the controversial topics, she did write an article about the nominating process, itself, where she criticized. >> bret: there it is. the quote. 1995. "the current confirmation mess derives not from the role the senate assumes in evaluating judge bork but the subsequent abandonment of the role and function. when the senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issue...

Sure we can tell a lot. it is the unofficial start of the 2012 election and i think you see the g.o.p. in a stronger position on the generic ballot, 46-38 and whoever we put up against barack obama will have a strong showing, after passing historic health care legislation, the numbers are not where they should be for democrats, particularly, obama at a historic low, 45%. martha: it is interesting, bob, in some ways were getting close to the election, look at things in political terms and other w...

H.w. bush nominated senator john tower to be secretary of defense. deep into john towers nominating process, serious allegations came forward about towers personal life, including infidelity and particularly allegations about excessive drinking. in both the clarence thomas case and the john tower case, it was an absolutely mundane noncontroversial part of those controversies that went late allegations emerged about those nominees, as part of the fbi standard role in doing background investigatio...

And they did and when you look back at the past year, i think that it is perfectly legitimate to say that were looking at, perhaps, the most conservative victories that we have had certainly since reagan and, perhaps even farther back than that. >> martha: guy, you were definitely in that camp a couple years ago that did not want him to be the guy in that nominating process. what do you think when you watch him go through that litany of what he is calling his accomplishments? would you be cheeri...

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Interest to somebody who could lose the presidency. the biden prospect is stilt there. had to have read the polls that joe biden was beating top republican contenders while hillary clinton was losing to them. right? >> well issue did good to the dnc and they told me, as you might expect, flatly, theyre trying to run an impartial primary process. i said tell me on the record, just for clarity, tell me this is not the kind of party you are, that the democratic national committee would not play a g...

And she has that freshness of being the first woman. >> without question. i think she would have the edge going in. i think bush would be a formidable general election candidate because he does have ties to the hispanic community, is fluent in spanish. his wife is hispanic. so he has an affinity with that community. he also is someone whos been willing to take on the party on immigration reform, on education reform. so thats been one of the failings of republican candidates in the last couple of...

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