be prepared, you don t want to appear like a robot but you want to make sure you don t slip up. jamie: who is watching and what impact does it have on the american vote? when the first presidential debate started with kennedy-nixon 50 years ago, over 60% of television were watching the debate. now it s down to a quarter to 30% of television but that is still a lot of people because some of the people who haven t made up their minds minds they are going to base their decision on the debates. this is about as much attention they are going to pay to the race. it s not the size of the audience, it s in who is in the audience. jamie: this is superbowl, this is going to be our olympics fox, we ll have wall to wall coverage. thanks for your thoughts today.
has nothing to do with the election. another major network has a reporter embedded in one of those buses and he says that they have 25 people showing up. every time there s a progressive here in town, we have wall wall-to-wall coverage. there is grassroots. the movement coming out for progressives has been huge since the beginning. again, as we were looking at the wisconsin numbers, boy, wisconsin, you guys vote. i mean, the turnout in wisconsin short of traditionally is well up over 65, well up over 70% in presidential elections, even in midterm elections. this feels like brothers and outside money versus the power of turnout and voting. in that sense it feels like maybe this is about what kind of democracy we re going to have going forward, even beyond the
the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. eric: there is a new controversy over how the killing of osama bin laden has played into the presidential campaign. how has the media been covering this in liz trotta joins us every sunday at this time with her commentary. good morning, liz. goods morning, eric. eric: this is not going away? li mean, this has been the most embarrassing display ofma me galomania, the wall-to-wall coverage and the chest thumping by the president on the anniversary of the bin laden raid. you know, george will said on abc this morning, trying to
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