that might be in battle with someone. but focusing down ballot and also trying to still win over some republican-esque voters. it s a fine line. that s why she s letting the president talk tough and say something like joe heck is running in nevada, saying it s too late not to like donald trump. you lose. i think she s letting some of her surrogates do her dirty work there and she is sort of appearing with them, campaigning with them, maybe not going after them with a knockout punch. i do think it is very significant that president obama is trying to help those state house races, not only for this election but they are looking forward to 2018. so there isn t another situation that happened in 2010 when a lot of these state houses, republicans really started to get a very strong foothold in a lot of state houses and eventually taking over. one of the remarkable results of this weekend is the republicans bragging about what a great year 2018 looks like for them. if you are talking a
creating opportunity and education. in medicare. in all of those essential things that in america we have come to understand can create opportunity for average citizens and help them fulfill their hopes and dreams and as remember dissipations. are you surprised he has closed the gap on cory booker to ten points? well, i mean, you know, there are a variety of polls out there, many of them have higher double digits than those. the reality is, this is a very unique election in new jersey history. i ve been involved in new jersey a long time. we have a special election in the middle of a week. we never had a wednesday election. and a few weeks before, all of the state house races, including the governor s race. so this is a very unique election. the bottom line is, i m sure cory booker is going to win. he s going to win by double digits. senator, you bring an interesting perspective to this, because you spent a number of years over on the house side. i think you ve got a good insight
other one is we ve had the citizens united supreme court decision which has brought a lot more money into politics and it s led to what i think is going to be an interesting moment in november to a question of can democrats keep up with the spending? by and large, republicans are outspending democrats. democrats can t keep up. and so they ve got to find another way to compete. yeah. and i also think that the is it true at this point, that the only way to compete is to get the super pac money going in your direction. is it not any more a message? not necessarily. the big test we re going to see in the fall democrats instead of trying to outraise republicans, which they don t think they can do and that s true from obama all the way on down to senate, state house races, what they re doing instead is trying to pursue a strategy of out organizing and really turning out a grassroots effort to overcome the financial disadvantage. it s not just the re-election campaign. obama was about t